This is a developing story. Check back to sanluisobispo.com for updates. To get breaking news alerts, click here Update 4:46 p.m. The fire was 50% contained after burning 3 to 5 acres, Cal Fire said in a post on X. Cal Fire said the cause of the fire was under investigation and that northbound traffic […]
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Firefighters battle late-night vegetation fire on SLO hillside
This is a developing story. Check back to sanluisobispo.com for updates. To get breaking news alerts, click here Firefighters battled a late-night blaze along Prefumo Canyon Road outside of San Luis Obispo on Thursday night. According to Cal Fire, the fire was reported in the area of 4300 Prefumo Canyon Road. As of 11:50 p.m., […]
‘Exceptional’ discovery reveals more than 30 ancient Egyptian tombs built into hillside
Archaeologists have unearthed more than 30 ancient Egyptian tombs that cover an entire hill in Aswan, an ancient city on the Nile. The burials date to the Greco-Roman period and reveal clues about those who once lived in this vibrant trading port. The finds include the mummies of what are likely families buried together; coffins; […]
Inside Hillside, one man defies the odds as a previous juvenile felon
The dream started with a sickly mother at an Indianapolis apartment complex known for trouble. Carl King, 25, decided early in his teens that nursing was going to be his career path. That reality was hard to realize growing up inside a bank of east-side apartments in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood. The complex may have changed […]
CCTV appears to show TV doctor Michael Mosley falling over on rocky hillside – reports
A brand-new F-35 crashed into a New Mexico hillside while flying from a Lockheed Martin facility to a US airbase
A new F-35B crashed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Tuesday, leaving its pilot injured. The jet was a new model being transferred from a Lockheed Martin facility to the US military, per reports. F-35s have been reported to cost up to $135 million each, but it’s unclear how much this one was worth. An F-35B […]
Black nonprofit sees investments in Duluth’s Central Hillside as ‘catalyst’
DULUTH – In the city’s Central Hillside neighborhood, life expectancy is a decade lower than elsewhere in Duluth and homeownership is rare. It’s where most of Duluth’s Black residents live, and a Black-run nonprofit will receive $500,000 over the next five years to invest in their neighborhood. The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation (DSACF) awarded […]
What’s the story behind the ‘Flaming W’ on the hillside above Weber State University’s Ogden campus?
As the story goes, some spirited Weber College fans carried 100 cans of kerosene up Mountain Ogden to light a flaming “W” on the hillside to celebrate homecoming in 1937. Since the late 1970s, the now Weber State University has lit an electronic “W” on the mountainside west of its Ogden campus in times of […]
Two children die in hillside collapse near California dam
Two children died after part of a Northern California hillside collapsed near a dam and river Thursday, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said. The children, described as juveniles, were caught in the rocks and debris that fell down a hillside around 9 a.m., downstream of the Shasta Dam, the office said in a news release. […]
Video shows Target store sliding down hillside in West Virginia as store is forced to close
A Target store in Barboursville, West Virginia has shut down for a “prolonged period” after slipping hillside caused it to partially collapse. The store was initially closed on Feb. 2 when the hill first slipped, according to local media outlet Eyewitness News and the company called in structural engineers and utility workers to assess broken […]