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PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal regulators last week issued a draft environmental impact statement saying there were significant benefits to a plan to demolish four massive dams on Northern California's Klamath River to save imperiled migratory salmon, setting the stage for the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history. The issuing of a statement by the [...]
DENVER (AP) — Gary Peters spent seven years camping outside a Denver golf course to avoid sleeping in a public shelter until last summer when he moved into a new homeless community where he's been given his own ice-fishing tent featuring electrical outlets, a cot and a zero-degree rated sleeping bag. The 75-year-old is among [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With California entering the third year of severe drought, federal officials said Wednesday they won't deliver any water to farmers in the state's major agricultural region — a decision that will force many to plant fewer crops in the fertile soil that yields the bulk of the nation's fruits, nuts and [...]
Krystal Guerra's Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space. But Guerra was fine with the apartment's shortcomings. It was all part of being a 32-year-old graduate student in South Florida, she reasoned, and she was happy to live there for a few more years as [...]
The new U.S. Census Bureau director said Monday that he is listening to the concerns of data users and policymakers, and the agency is making permanent community outreach efforts, in an effort to restore any trust that has been lost following attempts by the Trump administration to politicize the nation's 2020 head count. Despite those [...]
The Ohio State University Extension has partnered this week with state Treasurer Robert Sprague to mark Ohio Saves Week — the annual statewide campaign that encourages individuals and families to review their finances. Held in conjunction with a national campaign, this year’s effort plans to highlight key areas that contribute to financial stability — starting [...]
DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Meeting with a man whose well water has been polluted for years, officials in the Pennsylvania attorney general's office asked him whether he'd consider accepting a treatment system from the gas driller charged with fouling his aquifer. Not a chance, Ray Kemble told them. "Are you going to drink and bathe [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — It should have been a time of celebration: Brittan Heller would soon graduate from college and head to one of the nation's top law programs. But when a classmate with unrequited feelings for Heller wasn't admitted to that same school, he turned his rage on her. He wrote a manifesto titled [...]
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — On past deployments Army National Guard Spc. Michael Stockwell surveilled a desolate section of the U.S.-Mexico border during a migrant surge, and guarded a ring of checkpoints and fences around New Mexico's state Capitol after the January 2021 insurrection in Washington. On his current mission, Stockwell helps students with assignments as [...]
Designers and lighting companies have been busy coming up with new ways to hold a lightbulb and project light, and winter is a great time to explore their latest solutions. Some are inspired by the skies overhead. Others by style eras, from Deco to disco. Still others are working with interesting materials around which to [...]