More education on risks of coastal fishing needed The call for more education comes after a body of one of two men who went missing while fishing from rocks north of Whangārei Heads was found on Friday. 05/3/2024 - 12:08 pm | View Link
Weekend Break: Staying afloat There are many varieties of life jackets and other personal flotation devices available today. Their earliest forms were invented thousands of years ago. Julia Triezenberg is an educator at the ... 05/2/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Laredo officials discuss ‘Cati’s Act,' hoping to minimize child drownings in Texas Texas State Sen. Judith Zaffirini and others were on hand in Laredo to discuss Cati’s Act -- a bill that is designed to help lower child drownings in Texas. 05/1/2024 - 7:50 am | View Link
Safety reminders when heading to lakes and ponds this season Two people were rescued from Loon Pond Monday evening, and suffered from mild hypothermia. One of them was a four-year-old girl. 04/30/2024 - 11:43 am | View Link
MBC CEO Sam Barnett Talks Impact of Israel-Hamas War on Middle East’s Top Broadcaster: ‘It Reflects Your Content and Disposition’ (EXCLUSIVE) MBC Group CEO Sam Barnett led the Middle East’s largest broadcaster through a very successful IPO, which gave the Saudi-owned linear TV operator and streamer a $222 million financial boost. This was ... 04/30/2024 - 4:12 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.