Most African cat species avoid entering water, making this sighting of a mother cheetah and its 4-month-old cubs crossing the Bushmans River in South Africa an “extremely rare” sighting indeed. Jonathan and Abigal Nottingham provided the amazing footage to the Kariega Game Reserve, which posted the video on its Instagram page. “Guide Richard and his […]
Joe Feitelberg didn’t just speak to people. He engaged them. Rich, poor and everything in between. He asked questions. He absorbed the answers. He knew everyone he met had a story and he wanted to hear it. That approach served him well, in both business and life. Enormously loved and respected in Greater Fall River […]
For the past month, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been shadowing Gediz Vallis, a channel that scientists think may be the fossil of an ancient Martian river. Last week, Curiosity reached the north side of Pinnacle Ridge, part of a rock wall that looms over Gediz Vallis. In fact, after Curiosity navigated bumpy ground to do […]
The body of a man who had been traveling down the Colorado River on a wooden raft has been found in Grand Canyon National Park, officials said. Thomas Robinson, a 58-year-old man from Santa Fe, New Mexico, was believed to have attempted to travel down the Colorado River on a wooden raft with his dog […]
A mother in California died while trying to rescue her young daughter from the San Joaquin River. Brenda Duran, 30, was at the San Joaquin River last Thursday watching her children play in the water when her daughter, 11, “began having difficulties keeping her head above the water,” the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said in […]
The body of an “avid hiker” who went missing four weeks ago in New Hampshire’s White Mountains was discovered wedged under a large boulder in the Dry River, according to searchers. A cause of death for William Donovan, 65, has not been released. He was visiting the area from Cambridge, Massachusetts. His body was recovered […]
LEUPP, Ariz. (AP) — A proposed water rights settlement for three Native American tribes that carries a price tag larger than any such agreement enacted by Congress took a significant step forward late Monday with introduction in the Navajo Nation Council. The Navajo Nation has one of the largest single outstanding claims in the Colorado […]
MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Merced River and the San Joaquin River will be closed for recreational use throughout Merced County, announced the Merced County Sheriff’s Office on Monday. Lake Yosemite closed until further notice Sheriff’s officials say the snow melting the Sierra Nevada Mountains, is provoking more water to be released into the […]
A body found Friday in the Colorado River is believed to be that of a New Mexico man who went into the waterway on a homemade raft with his dog last month, officials said. The Coconino County medical examiner will confirm the identity and whether the body is that of Thomas L. Robison, 58, of […]
A body found in Grand Canyon National Park is believed to belong to a missing man who took a wooden raft down a river, rangers say. Rangers said they recovered the body after it was found in the Colorado River on Friday, May 10, according to a National Park Service May 13 news release. Though […]
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 […]
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two people were rescued from the San Joaquin River Sunday afternoon and state and county officials are reminding the public to practice water safety. Cal Fire says just after 3 p.m. they were called to the Friant and North Fork Roads for multiple people needing rescue in the San Joaquin […]