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EASTLAND, Texas (AP) — Low humidity and gusty winds fueled multiple wildfires Friday in...

EASTLAND, Texas: Low humidity and gusty winds fueled multiple wildfires Friday in Texas, burning homes and other structures and prompting evacuations...

A good news community roundup from Greater Victoria and Vancouver Island.

The City of Toronto is planning to honour Terry Fox and his remarkable Marathon of Hope with a building-size mural in downtown Toronto. City officials engaged five Toronto street, mural and graffiti artists to come up with an eight storey landmark mural that will be painted on the north side of U of T’s Rehabilitation […]

Just in time for summer travel season, the reconfiguring of Interstate 20 on Ranger Hill has reached a major milestone. The westbound traffic was moved May 3 to newly constructed lanes. The entrances and exits for the westbound rest area also were opened that day, said Lisa Tipton, spokeswoman for the Brownwood District Office of the Texas Department of Transportation. The $76 million TxDOT project to redesign Eastland Countys Ranger Hill – a famously  steep inclines on I-20 in Texas...

“I was the kid who couldn’t have the shoes,” Reid said. “That’s why I’m passionate about whether I can get shoes on kids’ feet for activities. Everybody needs to be touched by something to be motivated to get involved.” In 1996, he founded the Shoes for Youth program with Runners of Compassion, another charity organization he also set up. The Shoes for Youth program has handed out hundreds of shoes to local youth so they can take part in sports. Another favourite is the Victoria...