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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in El Paso, Texas, described a humanitarian crisis Thursday as they grapple with the daily release of roughly 1,600 migrants to local shelters and the streets of the border city amid preparations for even larger flows if Trump-era asylum restrictions end next week as scheduled. El Paso Mayor Oscar [...]
RENO, Nev. — A Nevada wildflower was declared endangered at the only place it's known to exist — on a high-desert ridge where a lithium mine is planned to help meet growing demand for electric car batteries, U.S. wildlife officials announced last week. The Fish and Wildlife Service's formal listing of Tiehm's buckwheat and its [...]
More than half of adults say it's harder to afford the holiday gifts they want to give this year. Sixty-nine percent of them say they have seen higher prices for holiday gifts in recent months, up from 58 percent last year, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Whitebark pine trees can live for more than 1,000 years, but in just two decades more than a quarter of the trees that are a key food source for some grizzly bears have been killed by disease, wildfires and voracious beetles, government officials said as they planned to announce federal protections [...]
DETROIT — In a bustling metro area of 4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into isolated thickets to study Detroit's most elusive residents — coyotes, foxes, raccoons and skunks among them. Harris and colleagues have placed trail cameras in woodsy sections of 25 city parks for the past five years. They've [...]
WASHINGTON — The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare for the District of Columbia and other major cities that public transit was a lifeline for essential workers and that even modest fares could be a burden to them. So the nation's capital is introducing a groundbreaking plan: It will begin offering free bus fares to residents next [...]
NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is suing a coastal town that repaired beach erosion from a fall storm in defiance of a state order not to do so. The town, North Wildwood, remains defiant: It says it will place material to build a prohibited bulkhead on the sand this week. The state says [...]
PERTH AMBOY, N.J. — People are asking questions about a storm protection proposal for New York and New Jersey that would be among the most massive and costly flood control projects ever done in America, aiming to prevent the type of catastrophic flooding caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. At a public hearing last week [...]
Central Ohio is adding construction jobs at a faster rate than any other major metro area in Ohio, according to a report from the Associated General Contractors of America. In the past year, the Columbus region has added more than 2,400 construction jobs, an increase of 5 percent from a year ago. The area has [...]
Most people no longer get a tax deduction when they donate to charity. That shouldn't keep you from making donations, but you may want to change your approach. Typically, only taxpayers who itemize deductions can write off charitable contributions. The vast majority of taxpayers instead take the standard deduction, which was nearly doubled by the [...]