ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Usually it is bears that cause problems, but this time wildlife officials say it is humans that are showing too little fear of a bear frequenting popular spots along the Seward Highway south of Anchorage.
The Anchorage Daily News (http://bit.ly/...
Without fanfare, the nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.
The revamp, the first since the program began after Three Mile Island in 1979, also eliminates a requirement that local...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.(AP) — Gary Gagnon’s inspiration was a pile of his kids’ beat-up sneakers.
When taking out the trash at his Ballantyne-area home, Gagnon noticed a heap of them ready for the garbage. A self-proclaimed “diligent recycler,” he had an inventor’s flash of insight:...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A small company that holds a federal lease to extract petroleum from oil shale reserves in western Colorado is taking a new approach to withdrawing crude oil from solid rock — one that it hopes will avoid groundwater contamination.
The process is “...
May 9, 2012
(Arlington Heights) Daily Herald
Kirk’s recovery video is both welcome, helpful
He’s one of just two from the state of Illinois and one of just 100 in the country. So the release Tuesday of a video of Sen. Mark Kirk, showing how far he has come since his stroke 15 weeks ago is a welcome addition to the reports we’ve been...
WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Health Department has temporarily closed Whidbey Island’s Penn Cove to all shellfish harvesting due to a diesel spill from a sunken fishing boat.
The Coast Guard said Tuesday that divers have plugged a vent on the boat that was leaking two gallons of...
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A Riverside County man has been sentenced to a week in jail and fined more than $20,000 for poaching lobsters from the Laguna Beach Marine Reserve.
Department of Fish and Game Assistant Chief Paul Hamdorf says 30-year-old Marbel Para’s conviction last week is the first...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A panel that advises the U.S. and Canadian governments about the Great Lakes will make Lake Erie’s excessive phosphorus levels and algae blooms a priority for study over the next three years.
The International Joint Commission said this week that...
CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) — High winds increased the acreage of a northern Arizona wildfire Tuesday, but also blew flames away from an historic mining town.
The blaze near Crown King began on private land Sunday and has burned about 2½ square miles Tuesday with zero containment. Fire officials said winds...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii will get more than $128,000 to help protect and preserve Hawaiian monk seals, green sea turtles and hawksbill turtles.
U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye and U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka announced Monday the money comes from a grant administered by the National Oceanic and...
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