From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in April 2013. The most impressive natural feature in the Coachella Valley is the northeast face of San Jacinto Peak. In slightly less than 7 horizontal miles the peak rises from 800 to 10,834 feet above sea level, creating the steepest escarpment in the […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — As folks in central North Carolina continue to eye the completion of a casino less than 60 miles from Durham, a major expansion is partially complete at an existing casino in the North Carolina mountains. Right now, Caesars Virginia casino in Danville, just a mile from the North Carolina border, is […]
Spaceflight doesn’t typically come to mind when one thinks of North Carolina’s serene, verdant mountains. It’s true that, in the early 1960s, NASA built the (now-defunct) Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Facility among the rolling hills of Appalachia to track Soviet satellites and relay communications for the Gemini and Apollo programs. And, of course, […]
DUBAI (Reuters) -A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog on the way back from a visit to the border with Azerbaijan, an Iranian official told Reuters. The official said the lives of Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were […]
A 23-year-old hiker went missing in Rocky Mountain National Park Sunday after he texted his friend that he had reached the summit of a mountain. Lucas Macaj from Colorado Springs, Colorado texted his friend around 1 p.m. to let them know he was at the summit of Longs Peak, a mountain in the Rockies. That […]
Before Phoenix pushed outward toward the White Tank Mountains, the range was a refuge for wildlife, whether they set up home territories or migrated between mountain ranges. As central Phoenix became densely developed, the White Tank Mountains offered residents access to rugged peaks, vast stretches of saguaro cactuses and glimpses of wildlife amid the arid […]
A motorist died Tuesday after a Tesla plunged hundreds of feet down an embankment on Highway 50 in Northern California’s high Sierra, according to the California Highway Patrol. Officers were alerted to the incident just before 11:30 a.m. in which the vehicle veered off westbound lanes near a Chevron gas station several miles east of […]
TOURMALET PASS, France (AP) — France’s president is hosting China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private meetings after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by trade disputes and Russia’s war in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron made a point of inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping to the […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A forest fire near the town of Timberon, New Mexico, has burned 100 acres and is zero percent contained, according to a news release sent out by the New Mexico Forestry Division late Friday night, May 3. The Oakmont Fire was discovered at about 12:30 p.m. Friday. All roads into […]
President Biden on Thursday will expand the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly a third in an action that is being widely praised by the Indigenous leaders, politicians, conservationists and community organizers who had long fought for the enlargement of the protected natural area that serves as the backyard of the Los Angeles Basin. […]
A car that belongs to a missing Massachusetts man who may have disappeared while hiking was recently found abandoned in a parking lot near a trail in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, authorities said. The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department says it was notified on Sunday of a possible missing person whose vehicle was found […]
A new telescope billed as the world’s highest astronomical site is officially open for business. The Japanese University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, or TAO, which was first conceptualized 26 years ago to study the evolution of galaxies and exoplanets, is perched on top of a tall mountain in the Chilean Andes at 5,640 meters (18,500 […]