A brief meeting was held recently to give residents of the Juniata Watershed the opportunity to provide input and suggestions on the Juniata Watershed Management Plan. The meeting was held at the Saxton Fire Hall. The plan is a project of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy with multiple partners. Encompassing 3,400 square miles in several states including Pennsylvania and several of its ... Read More

May 30—The work to create a new Buffalo AKG Art Museum is seen in the soon-to-open Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building, the return of the grand stairs outside the 1905 building and the kaleidoscopic canopy that adorns the newly named Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Town Square. Less evident has been the planning to let people near and far know about this major cultural achievement that opens June 12 in Buffalo. ... Read More

A slender taper of latticework, its filigree etched in flame against a smoke-darkened sky. Falling. When the world's most recognizable cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris, burned on April 15, 2019, the toppling of its spire was the catastrophe's defining moment — a dreamlike loop endlessly replayed, a stuttering stop-time interval that seemed, improbably, to last forever. "It was so hard to believe ... Read More

Citing rising rates and unresponsiveness from City Hall, DuPage County — Chicago’s biggest water customer — has taken initial steps to cut off its lucrative contract and build its own pipeline to Lake Michigan. The massive undertaking, which would cost billions of dollars and was once considered almost unthinkable, comes at an inflection point in the region’s water system, as the DuPage Water ... Read More

A California Department of Fish and Wildlife plan to introduce tidal flows into the Ballona Creek wetlands has come to a screeching halt after a judge ruled recently that the agency's environmental impact report on the project failed to adequately account for flood risks. In a May 17 decision, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant ordered the agency to set aside its ... Read More

Eight people have been rescued from a six-story Iowa apartment building after it partially collapsed Sunday, including one who was saved overnight, authorities said in an update Monday. Officials have not reported any deaths and were continuing their search efforts after the building in downtown Davenport, which houses 84 apartments, went down before 5 p.m. local time. “We’re getting ... Read More

Rescuers pulled one person from the rubble overnight, Davenport Fire Chief Mike Carlsten said in a press conference Monday morning. No deaths have been reported in the partial collapse of the Davenport Apartment Building, 324 Main St., and Carlsten said rescue crews are continuing to search the rubble with dogs for anyone trapped. "We do not have any credible information at this time that ... Read More