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For the second time this year, the federal government has refused to overrule the state of Oregon regarding a state-level decision against the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas project. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, through a decision signed by a U.S. Department of Commerce official this week, declined to override a February 2020 decision by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development determining the project hasn’t demonstrated it would comply with Ore...

Twenty tourism-focused Somerset County businesses – including bed and breakfasts, outdoor recreation groups and Jennerstown Speedway – received a share of $202,649 to market themselves to visitors at a time

A legislative snag for recreational paddlers and tourism concerns snapped on Wednesday, via Virginia budget amendment. Lawmakers looked to deal with boat ramp parking issues when they voted in February 2020 to institute fees at Department of Wildlife Resources-run boating access ramps. But in what one delegate called an unintended consequence, the fees would have created issues for outfitters and other businesses on commonwealth waterways. The law would have gone into effect July 1, applying a ...

MONROE COUNTY — Florida Keys property owners are facing their first windstorm insurance rate increase in three years.

JACKSON • Rural Mississippians with slow or nonexistent internet connections could get relief under two bills moving through the Legislature. House Bill 942 would allow internet companies to lease out existing or planned “dark fiber” lines operated by Entergy and Mississippi Power to run the electric grid. The legislation easily passed Tuesday and follows a similar proposal, Senate Bill 2798, which cleared the opposing chamber last week. “We need to have broadband in every h...

The United Kingdom-based biotech company Oxitec will soon announce the test locations and timetable for releasing its genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. The test involves releasing lab-reared Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a species of mosquito commonly found in the Keys that can carry dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya. There could be small specific release sites that will be spread throughout the Keys, Oxitec spokeswoman Meredith Fensom said. Not one small defined area of neighbo...

Vintage Postcard This bench, part of Downtown Racines 2019 public art project, is called Vintage Postcard by Paul Muckler, sponsored by Dimples Fine Imports and built by Veterans Outreach. 2019’s Public Art Project features benches The theme to 2019’s Public Art Project is benches featuring Racine’s past, present and future. The benches are located throughout the Downtown area and will remain there through the summer.  EverGreen, Ever Learning, Ever Growing This bench, part...

Wellington’s rental market kicked off 2021 with a bang, the region’s median weekly rent hit a record-breaking $615 per week in January, according to the latest Trade Me Rental Price Index. Trade Me Property Sales Director Gavin Lloyd said Wellington ...

Jackson Mayor Hailey Morton Levinson delivered her first “State of the Town” address Tuesday, offering her reflections on the past coronavirus-addled year and a candid look at the coming year, including budgetary and revenue challenges the town faces. Morton Levinson began by recalling a mid-February 2020 trip to Cheyenne with other local elected officials at a time “when the term ‘COVID-19’ was something we were just starting to say and think about.” “Just we...

Misha McRae’s professional life continues to branch out, like the garden he works at and the city he lives in and now helps to oversee.