By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Experts say a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada are the legacy of the nation’s fire-suppression experts and climate change. Fighting such fires going forward will require a shift ...
A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread
By SETH BORENSTEIN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press After three of Earth’s hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat epidemic.” “If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it’s that we’re all increasingly feeling the heat,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday at a news conference where he highlighted that Monday was the hottest day on record, surpassing the mark set just a day earlier. “Earth is ...
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — A wildfire burning in Oregon that’s kicking smoke into neighboring states is now the largest active blaze in the U.S., authorities said, and fire crews are bracing for a storm late Wednesday that’s expected to bring lightning, strong winds and the risk of flash floods. The Durkee Fire, burning near the Oregon-Idaho border about 130 miles west of Boise, Idaho, shut down Interstate 84 for hours on Tuesday as the flames approached the vital link between the states. The freeway briefly reopened Wednesday, but then closed again as ...
Marquette and vicinity: Today, sunny, with a high near 74. West wind around 5 mph becoming northeast in the afternoon. Tonight, clear, with a low around 58. East wind around 5 mph becoming south after midnight. Extended forecast: Friday, sunny, with a high near 83. South wind around 5 mph. ...
By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, July 25, the 207th day of 2024. There are 159 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 25, 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing more than 100 of them to die, as a way of studying the disease. Also on this date: In 1866, Ulysses S. ...
