Every year, waves of people from around the world make their way to southern California to start a new life and find safe harbour. Along remote, isolated sections of the border between California and Mexico, many asylum seekers cross illegally, often fleeing violence or persecution in their home countries, and then surrender to border agents; […]
Jun. 4—Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown declared a city-wide emergency on Tuesday over the amount of opioid usage in the area of Second Avenue and Division Street. The area, long considered a crisis point by first responders, is often a spot where drug users openly smoke fentanyl and use other narcotics. It’s also a hotspot for […]
At a nondescript mall in Beavercreek, a sleepy suburb in south-west Ohio, workers are unpacking the latest camping equipment, bikes and kayaks ahead of a grand opening of Ohio’s fifth REI co-op location. Surrounded by farmland and leafy streetscapes in a region that relied on manufacturing and an air force base as its economic lifeblood […]
May 5—Residents with a passion for the outdoors have had to go without the sights and sounds of the Seven Tubs Recreation Area since April 2023, when the area was shut down for a series of infrastructure projects. Those projects are now complete, and the reopened Seven Tubs has reclaimed its place as a local […]
Sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s, firefighters from departments across Cape Cod started using a firefighting foam laden with PFAS as they trained at the county-owned fire academy in Hyannis. For much of that time, the dangers of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, were unknown to firefighters spraying the foam, made to […]
Although it’s been around for years, a rat-shaped hole in a Chicago sidewalk, speculated to have actually been caused by a squirrel, recently went viral after it was featured in a post on X, the site formerly called Twitter. The post, which has been viewed more than 5 million times, inspired residents and non-residents alike […]
Another large apartment complex may be coming to the fast-growing South Main Street corridor, built by a Fort Worth developer whose portfolio already includes three modern complexes in the Near Southside neighborhood. This new five-story complex with a parking garage would span three vacant blocks on the north side of East Pennsylvania Avenue, between Panther […]