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LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Freddy Tomas said he was working in his yard in Lahaina when the fire advanced with stunning speed right up to his fence. He rushed to save valuables from a safe inside his house, but realized he didn’t have time and fled, his face blackened with soot. Days after fleeing in [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is hoping to jump-start the replacement of the two bridges connecting Cape Cod to the rest of the state by focusing first on federal dollars to replace the Sagamore Bridge before turning to the Bourne Bridge. The renewed effort comes as earlier attempts to win federal funds to [...]
LUDLOW, Vermont (AP) — The crack of a summer thunderstorm once comforted people in Ludlow, Vt., but that was before a storm dropped eight inches of rain on the village of 2,200 in two days last month. It also was before the devastation of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Now a coming rainstorm can stir [...]
The Biden administration earlier this week announced the availability of nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get stuck trying to pass through the tunnels. Many of the narrow passages are often made from metal or concrete, were built in [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department earlier this week unveiled a program to bring electricity to more homes in Native American communities as the Biden administration looks to funnel more money toward renewable-energy projects. The program will be funded by an initial $72.5 million. Federal officials said $150 million of the Inflation Reduction [...]
LAHAINA, Hawaii — Richy Palalay so closely identifies with his Maui hometown that he had a tattoo artist permanently ink "Lahaina Grown" on his forearms when he was 16. Yet a chronic housing shortage and an influx of second-home buyers and wealthy transplants have been displacing residents such as Palalay who give Lahaina its spirit [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Nearly $3 billion in settlement money from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that devastated the Gulf Coast and killed hundreds of thousands of marine animals is now funding a massive ecosystem restoration in southeastern Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish. The flat, sparsely populated land divided by the Mississippi River delta is marbled by bayous [...]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Declaring it good "not only for Arizona but for the planet," President Joe Biden earlier this week signed a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon, turning the decades-long visions of Native American tribes and environmentalists into reality. The move will help preserve about 1,562 square miles [...]
LAYTON, Fla. (AP) — Steps away from the warming waters of Florida Bay, marine biologist Emily Becker removed covers from the dozens of water-filled tanks under her watchful eye. Nestled in seawater carefully maintained at about 85 degrees lay hundreds of pieces of coral — some a sickly white from the bleaching that threatens to [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — Wildfires in Hawaii fanned by strong winds burned multiple structures, forcing evacuations and closing schools in several communities this week, and rescuers pulled a dozen people escaping smoke and flames from the ocean. The U.S. Coast Guard responded to areas where people went into the ocean to escape the fire and smoky [...]