Benjamin Platt News Today

In their first home game of the season in Counties 1 Cumbria, Cockermouth Wasps ran riot against Hawcoat Park to earn a 49-3 victory, writes Ollie Swain.

The legislative push for ropeless gear in the Dungeness crab fishing industry is taking a pause after the Assembly bills author was sworn in as Californias 34th attorney general. Introduced on Feb. 10, Assembly Bill 534—the Whale Entanglement Prevention Act—proposed mandating ropeless gear for trap fisheries such as the crabbing industry. Authored by Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) in collaboration with Social Compassion in Legislation and the Center for Biological Diversity, the b...