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People in Norfolk would be best served by two councils, rather than one or three, according to the leader of one of the councils facing abolition.
"If you think about the economic geography, then our two council model is the only one that reflects that." He said the east / west split would allow each area to address specific challenges, ...
India’s forest and tree cover now spans 25.17% of country’s total geographical area, or 827,357 sq km. Of this, 21.76% is forest cover, while 3.41% is tree cover.
Cave of El Castillo, Spain Some of the oldest known paintings in the world are in the Cave of the Castle, in Cantabria in the north of Spain. Thought to be more than 40,000 years old, many of the ...
The group also worked with National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas project, an initiative to protected 20 of the ocean's wildest places by 2020. Ascension Island will be the 22nd marine ...
On a new Bay Area wildfire-risk map that gauges the threat of wind-driven embers, Lars Guntvedt’s neighborhood in the hills above Los Gatos sits in the highest-danger zone. Like many of his of ...
ICE agents reportedly detained more than a dozen people who showed up to the agency's San Francisco field office for a scheduled check in.
In the Bay Area, a total of 40 jobs will be cut with layoffs impacting facilities in Oakland, Berkeley, Fremont, Pleasanton, San Francisco, and Vallejo.
Trails, commercial permitting and recreation management around popular reservoirs on Pikes Peak are under a review recently launched by Colorado Springs Utilities. The agency has posted an online ...