MDEQ seeking ideas to restore oil-damaged resources
MDEQ seeking ideas to restore oil-damaged resources
BILOXI — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality held a meeting Thursday night to hear ideas from Coast residents, businesses and organizations on ways to restore natural resources damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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MEC suspends Komani bosses
MEC suspends Komani bosses
Health MEC Sicelo Gqobana has described Komani Psychiatric Hospital in Queenstown as an “embarrassment” to the Department of Health and warned management that “the honeymoon is over”.
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Storm rampages through EL
Storm rampages through EL
MOTORISTS were rescued from flooded roads in East London yesterday, businesses were shut, homes and roads were damaged and trees uprooted when gale-force storms driving heavy rains lashed the city yesterday.
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Sassa checks on fraud, paypoints in EC
Sassa checks on fraud, paypoints in EC
Social grant paypoints in the province are in such a poor state that only 13 percent of the Eastern Cape’s 2815 paypoints meet prescribed guidelines.
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Texas restoration could be model for Gulf
Texas restoration could be model for Gulf
A brown pelican flies Tuesday near a colonial waterbird nesting site along the Houston Ship Channel, in Baytown, Texas.
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Missing man’s body found in city pond
Missing man’s body found in city pond
WAUKEGAN — The body of a man missing from west suburban Westchester was found Wednesday in a pond near the city’s lakefront.Police are waiting until the family is notified to release the name of the 88-year-old man who appeared to have been the driver of a 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis.The car was submerged in a wetland area just southeast of the intersection of Greenwood Avenue and Pershing Road …
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Honeymooning turtles block NY flights
Honeymooning turtles block NY flights
Flights have been held up at JFK International Airport in NY by a procession of turtles crossing the runway.
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Noxious weeds becoming problem
Noxious weeds becoming problem
The North Platte Telegraph New Lincoln County weed superintendent Rod Yost is stepping into a job that had been vacant since February after Mitch Huxoll resigned to take another position in Kearney. Hired on May 30, Yost is facing a very wet spring and flooding that has resulted in an unusually heavy infestation of all weeds, Yost said, and his department is hustling to get on top of the issue.
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DFG completes waterfowl breeding survey
DFG completes waterfowl breeding survey
The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has completed its 2011 waterfowl breeding population survey The resulting data show that the overall number of breeding ducks has increased slightly, however, the number of mallards – the most abundant duck in the survey – decreased 14 percent from last year “Although surveys indicated a decrease in mallard abundance, habitat conditions were excellent in
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Idahoans: EPA ruling all wet
Idahoans: EPA ruling all wet
When Mike and Chantell Sackett bought a half-acre lot in the Priest Lake area of Idahos Panhandle, their plan was to build a home in which they could raise a family. Four years later, there’s still no house on the lot. What the Sacketts have built instead is a high-stakes …
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