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'It's quite severe': Rural municipalities in Saskatchewan offering coyote bounties

'It's quite severe': Rural municipalities in Saskatchewan offering coyote bounties

REGINA — Three rural communities in southern Saskatchewan have recently introduced bounties on coyotes in response to growing populations.
Residents flee as cyclone approaches northwest Australia

Residents flee as cyclone approaches northwest Australia

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Miners, cattle ranchers, tourists and Indigenous locals were evacuating from Australia’s remote northwest coast on Wednesday as an intensifying tropical cyclone approached.
Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

BELLE GARDEN, Tobago (AP) — Around 6:30 a.m. on May 28, 2021, off the beach near the Caribbean island of Tobago, a narrow white-and-blue boat drifted onto the horizon. From a distance, it seemed no one was aboard.
Takeaways of AP Investigation into deadly migrant voyage

Takeaways of AP Investigation into deadly migrant voyage

For nearly two years, The Associated Press assembled puzzle pieces from across three continents to uncover the story of a mysterious Mauritanian boat — and the people it carried to death as they drifted across the Atlantic Ocean and appeared in the C

Navajo Nation to receive federal aid for severe flood damage

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is set receive federal emergency aid to help repair damage caused by severe flooding during a series of storms earlier this year.
To fight cancer, EPA wants sterilizer companies to emit less

To fight cancer, EPA wants sterilizer companies to emit less

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after finding a higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions of medical devices each year.
Jackie Vautour's family's belongings boxed up from Kouchibouguac National Park

Jackie Vautour's family's belongings boxed up from Kouchibouguac National Park

FREDERICTON — The personal belongings of the family of a man who laid claim to land in New Brunswick's Kouchibouguac National Park are being removed, says Parks Canada.
US floats options to reduce water pulled from Colorado River

US floats options to reduce water pulled from Colorado River

BOULDER CITY, Nev.
Lawsuit seeks to uphold closing California’s last nuke plant

Lawsuit seeks to uphold closing California’s last nuke plant

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An environmental group on Tuesday sued to block Pacific Gas & Electric from seeking to extend the federal operating licenses for California’s last nuclear power plant.
Tribes want US protection for areas next to the Grand Canyon

Tribes want US protection for areas next to the Grand Canyon

PHOENIX (AP) — Tribal leaders in Arizona said Tuesday they hope to build on the momentum of President Joe Biden's recent designation of a national monument in neighboring Nevada to persuade the administration to create similar protections for areas a