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Date Time No time for waste Left to right: Carrie Barrett from Regional Illegal Dumping Squad (RID), Glen Crombie from National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), Katrina Gray from NPWS, Rob Robertson from RID, Karinda Stone from Cessnock City Council and Tara Dever from Mindaribba LALC. Our community is tired of seeing our beautiful Cessnock Local Government Area (LGA) spoilt by illegal dumping. In response, a number of organisations have decided to tackle anti-social behaviour together and increase surveillance. Representatives from Cessnock City Council, National Parks and Wildlife Service...

By Editor | May 19, 2021 | by Kate Shunney West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced last Friday, May 14 that he was dropping the state’s mask mandate for vaccinated residents under new CDC guidance. The Centers for Disease Control late last week said masks were optional given vaccination rates and new COVID case data. Gov. Justice said that anyone who is fully vaccinated against COVID can participate in indoor and outdoor activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing, regardless of crowd size. “Our face covering requirement no longer applies to you if you are fully vaccinate...

Close Gov. Jim Justice illustrates his sincerity regarding vaccinating younger West Virginians by tabulating the numbers of those yet to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Photo by Governor's Office Monetary incentives to be checks and bonds, governor says By Charles Boothe | Bluefield Daily Telegraph May 11, 2021 May 11, 2021 Gov. Jim Justice illustrates his sincerity regarding vaccinating younger West Virginians by tabulating the numbers of those yet to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Photo by Governor's Office CHARLESTON â€...

JACKSON STATE FOREST — Early Monday morning a group of about 50 protesters gathered on a logging road that leads into Jackson Demonstration State Forest near Caspar, planning to barricading the road in the hopes of keeping loggers acting on a Cal Fire timber harvest plan from entering the forest and potentially closing the road themselves. This pre-dawn protest joins the already active tree-sit happening in Jackson, as the latest move against Cal Fire’s timber harvests in the forest, which is owned and operated by the department. The action is a significant escalation in the struggl...

(Latvian Public Broadcasting) Despite generally damp conditions, April 26 brought the start of the annual forest fire risk season across Latvia, when special care must be taken in public forests and open spaces so as not to cause a potentially disastrous conflagration. During this period, a number of conditions must be met, not only for forest owners, but also for every visitor to the forest, said state-owned forestry company Latvia's State Forests (LVM).  "In certain weather conditions, a badly-extinguished campfire or smoldering cigarette butt is enough to cau...