Kyle Rice’s neighbors in Pleasant Hill might know him for the specialty COFFINS license plate on his truck or the haunted house he throws for the neighborhood every Halloween. Rice has a deep interest in funeral antiquing: His basement features a collection of undead “oddities” and memorabilia like giant rulers advertising funeral homes, vintage embalming […]
A late-morning mist drifting over a herd of shaggy buffalo ambling across a quiet prairie in northwest Indiana creates an iconic scene harkening back to before Indiana became a state in 1816. But this is 2024. And these buffalo are part of a unique project spearheaded by the Indiana chapter of The Nature Conservancy. While […]
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) announced that the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced $39.4 million in funding for nine projects in the State of Washington to remove fish passage barriers like small dams and culverts, open salmon and steelhead migration routes, and allow more salmon to return to their natural spawning grounds. […]
CHICAGO — It’s been four years since the COVID-19 outbreak led to a rise in remote work. Now, even though the public health crisis has diminished, the work from home trend shows no signs of slowing, pushing downtown office vacancies higher. “We just don’t have the same number of people working in the Loop as […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The rapids could be coming back to Grand Rapids. One year after an effort was rejected by regulators, a new plan is in motion to restore the rapids to the Grand River. Whitewater rapids, which the city was named for, vanished from the river in the late 1800s and early […]
An all-white school board in Virginia has voted to restore the names of Robert E Lee and other Confederate military leaders to two public schools in a backlash to the racial reckoning that followed the police murder of George Floyd. The decision to restore the names of Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Turner Ashby was taken […]
By Evelyn Hockstein and Julia Harte WOODSTOCK, Virginia (Reuters) – The education board for Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted early on Friday to restore Confederate generals’ names to two public schools in the predominantly white, rural and solidly Republican district, becoming the first in the U.S. to take such an action. By a 6-1 vote, the […]
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, early Friday approved a proposal that will restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools. The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a previous board’s decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner […]
DANBURY TOWNSHIP – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife initiated a project to restore wetland vegetation across 300 acres of Middle Harbor in East Harbor State Park. The project began in April with a completion date of later this year. The Middle Harbor wetland restoration project includes dredging a channel from […]
(COLORADO SPRINGS)– Several schools and businesses were affected by power outages on Monday, May 6, after fierce winds resulted in damage to power lines and property. Around 3,100 Colorado Springs Utilities (Springs Utilities) customers were still without power Monday night, and Springs Utilities said crews are working overnight to make repairs. On Monday morning, high […]
California crime victims groups and state lawmakers are pushing for $200 million in ongoing funding amid fears of impending deep federal funding cuts for victims’ services. Dozens of organizations across California including Sacramento’s WEAVE and Sacramento LGBT Community Center, Yolo County’s Empower Yolo and Stand Up Placer in Placer County have signed on to a […]
The Democratic National Committee voted Tuesday to reinstate New Hampshire’s delegates ahead of this summer’s convention in Chicago, ending months of fighting over the state’s 2024 presidential primary. “We as a committee and as a national committee have gone through a difficult number of weeks and months of getting to this point, and I know […]