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Are we sticking with the rain? Check out our local weather forecast before you head outside. |
Gardening with Allen: Fall good time to prune shrubs
I have some shrubs that have grown too large for the area where they are planted. Is this a good time to prune them? How about trees? |
Walmart looks to update fashion image
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart has been long known for its wide array of basic socks, T-shirts and pull-on pants. Now, the world’s largest retailer is betting it can change that image and be a destination for affordable stylish fashion for middle America. |
Report: TikTok videos promoting steroids have millions of views
NEW YORK — TikTok has become a key marketing channel for vendors promoting steroids and other bodybuilding drugs to millions of the app’s users, according to a report released Thursday that the social media company disputes. |
With success of Steigerwald refuge restoration, conservationists want to improve Campen Creek in city’s Mable Kerr Park
Conservationists are launching plans to restore a 2,000-foot-long section of Campen Creek in Washougal’s Mable Kerr Park, building on successful restoration work at the nearby Steigerwald National Wildlife Refuge. |
Tribes become stewards of monuments
In a rural area of Michigan’s Thumb region, a small state park preserves a collection of sandstone carvings that date back many hundreds of years. One of the carvings, a figure with a bow and arrow, symbolizes ancestors shooting their knowledge ahead seven generations. |
From the Newsroom: This Jan. 6 story wasn’t news
There’s an internet archive site called the Wayback Machine where, among other stuff, you can find all kinds of old news. Or, you could have just looked at Page A6 of our Thursday edition. |
Fewer young people in fishing industry
KODIAK, Alaska — Lane Bolich first came to work in Alaska for the freedom and excitement that comes with being a fisher. |
In Our View: Don’t spend money just because you have it
When they return to work in January, legislators should heed a lesson most of us learn at an early age: Just because you have money doesn’t mean you are compelled to spend it. |
This little Las Vegas claims a large presence in New Mexico’s history, landscape — and skies
In the first chapter of Genesis, it is written, “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” Eons later, the Las Vegas City Council wrote, “Let there be dark: and there was dark.” |