An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy. As large parts of the Sunshine State’s once-famous citrus industry have all but dried up over the past two decades due to two fatal diseases, greening and citrus canker, […]
California farmers once grew 36,000 acres of asparagus. Now, fewer than 3,000 acres are devoted to it in the state. How did we get here? It was a late March morning and dozens of women and men descended on a San Joaquin Valley asparagus farm — one of the last in the state. The workers […]
TALLAHASSEE – Citizen oversight boards would be limited to advising on law enforcement policies and procedures, and not the actions of individual officers, under legislation heading to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The change by the Republican-controlled Legislature dials back an earlier approach that would have banned the citizens boards in the 21 Florida cities that have […]
In the 1890s, a trip to the seaside was a grand occasion, and towns around the Coastal Bend built showcase hotels to attract the vacationers. Aransas Hotel in Rockport Col. John H. Traylor built the Aransas Hotel on the Rockport waterfront in 1889. Traylor was president of the Aransas Land Company, a group of Dallas […]
A cluster of “lost cities” that flourished for a millenia have been discovered by archaeologists in the Amazon, and published in the journal, Science, on Thursday. Laser imagery revealed intricate networks of roads, neighborhoods and gardens as complex as those built by the Mayan civilization. The traces of the cities were first noted by archaeologist […]