Battle Drive News Today

A revised Bird Creek Neighborhood Plan will no longer recommend reducing the slope of Suicide Hill, a Temple landmark since the late 1950s.

The Bird Creek Neighborhood Plan was presented to Temple City Council during Thursday’s workshop, and controversy around a recommendation to reduce the slope on the popular landmark known as Suicide

The city of Temple has developed a Bird Creek Neighborhood Plan that would link Midway Drive and Loop 363 with a trail network, provide redevelopment options if Cater Elementary should

The company KBR is looking to hire more workers at Fort Lee as the base continues to care and house thousands of Afghan refugees that arrived in Virginia over the summer.

The roughly 171,000-acre Richard Spring Fire south of Colstrip reached 65 percent contained over the weekend, up from 0 percent containment Friday. Some evacuation and pre-evacuation notices remain in effect in the area.

The Broadwater County Sheriff’s Office lifted a mandatory evacuation order in connection with the Woods Creek fire, officials said Wednesday, adding that some areas remain on high alert.

Gov. Greg Gianforte’s office announced Wednesday that the Poverty Flats Fire spanning tens of thousands of acres is threatening more than 1,240 homes in and around Crow Agency and Hardin in Big Horn County. It’s also threatening infrastructure, utilities and roads in the area. According to Brian Mischel, disaster and emergency services coordinator for Big Horn County, the fire is 53,000 acres and growing. The fire started yesterday in pine and grass. Its 5% contained according to the Monta...

The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 64-year-old Chocowinity man on drug charges after finding heroin in his possession, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported Thursday. Detectives with the Special Operations Unit initiated a traffic stop on Jefferson Street in Greenville on Tuesday, the agency said in a news release. Officers located heroin and arrested Frank Douglas Brinton, the release said. He was charged with possession of heroin and released after posting $10,000 secur...