Marquette and vicinity: Today, sunny, with a high near 75. Northeast wind around 5 mph. Tonight, mostly clear, with a low around 51. North wind 5 to 10 mph. Extended forecast: Sunday, sunny, with a high near 75. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 75. Northeast wind ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Supreme Court will consider questions about issues that threaten to thwart a $4 billion settlement in last year’s devastating Maui wildfires. A Maui judge last month agreed to ask the state high court questions ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection employee charged with starting five brush fires spent months as an inmate firefighter after being convicted of causing a fatal collision, according to officials and public records. Robert Hernandez, 38, was arrested last Friday at the Howard Forest Fire Station in Healdsburg, California, on suspicion of arson to forest land, Cal Fire said. Hernandez worked as an apparatus engineer for the agency, operating and maintaining fire engines and water tanks during emergency responses. A court complaint filed by ...
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Grateful Poles are heaping praise — and coming up with fond names — to honor their silent hero that just saved them: a floodwater reservoir that spared the cities of Opole and Wroclaw from imminent flooding that ravaged parts of Central Europe. “National Hero,” the “King of Gold” and “Raciborz Reservoir the Great.” Some social media entries even suggest that the Lower Raciborz Reservoir floodplains should be named after Poland’s famous goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny. Located on the Oder River, the ...
Cambodia hopes a new canal will boost trade. But it risks harming the Mekong that feeds millions. By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press PREK TAKEO, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has broken ground to build a $1.7 billion, China-funded canal to eventually link its capital Phnom Penh to the Gulf of Thailand. The hope is that the 180-kilometer-long (110 miles) canal will cut transport costs and reduce dependence on Vietnamese ports. Cambodia’s plans to build the massive canal linking the Mekong to a port on on its own coast on the Gulf of Thailand are raising alarm that the project could ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO — Rescue workers searched for at least six people missing Sunday after heavy rain pounded Japan’s northcentral region of Noto, triggering landslides and floods and leaving one person dead in a region still recovering from a deadly Jan. 1 ...
