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Audubon Area Community Services receiving over $600K in federal funding By 14 News Staff | May 13, 2021 at 9:36 AM CDT - Updated May 13 at 9:36 AM OWENSBORO, Ky. (WFIE) - Senator Mitch McConnell announced 27 community service agencies and educational organizations across the Commonwealth will be receiving nearly $4.3 million in federal funding. Audubon Area Community Services in Owensboro is one of those organizations that will be granted funding. They are set to get over $600,000. Officials say that funding will provide necessary childcare and learning services during the coronavirus pan...

"Muck dredging is clearly not solving the problem," Randy Fine said. "We have to prevent the nutrients from getting in the water."

Gadsden City Council President Cynthia Toles at the end of Tuesday’s council meeting reiterated the city’s response to comments last week by the attorney for opponents of a proposed Pilgrim’s Pride rendering plant.  Christie Knowles in a social media post last week said Mayor Sherman Guyton “essentially accused” her of stealing confidential documents that dealt with the plant. Her firm represents both plaintiffs in a pair of lawsuits against the plant.   Knowles also said she had been informed that the mayor’s office had sought to obtain a search warrant for her offi...

 E-Mail IMAGE: UT is helping the Texas General Land Office locate sand for projects to restore beaches along the Texas coast, which is under threat from rising sea levels and tropical storms.... view more  Credit: Texas General Land Office Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin will embark from Galveston on April 14 in search of sunken treasure that holds the key to protecting Texas from storms and rising seas: sand. About 80% of Texas' Gulf shoreline is critically eroded, and the state is running out of easily accessible sand to rebuild and protect the shore, as the Texa...

Oil spill response Q: I've been reading news reports about the recent oil spills in the San Francisco Bay Area and learned that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is the lead state agency handling oil spills. How did the department assume this authority? (Dave) A: CDFW’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) was established by the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1990. The legislation came on the heels of two major spills, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, in which 11 million gallons of crude oil was released, and the Am...