[dropcap]H[/dropcap]eavy rains are complicating efforts to provide aid to communities on Indonesia’s remote western islands cut by last week’s massive tsunami that killed 429 people. The rains have made roads impassible, holding up convoys delivering heavy machinery and relief supplies to isolated areas, forcing disaster officials to send helicopters to drop supplies and evacuate residents. There […]
Even as the government is in the midst of a partial shutdown, nothing can stop NORAD from its yearly task of tracking Santa’s journey through the Christmas Eve skies as the jolly one treks to locations across the planet to deliver his toys to girls and boys everywhere. For the past 63 years NORAD, who […]
This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. The super star is ten times more massive than the Sun and 200 […]
Reports of an aircraft crash on Big Lake went in to the Alaska State Troopers on Saturday the troopers reported on Sunday. According to the report, 66-year-old Austin Joy of Big Lake flipped his Cessna Skywagon on the lake on Saturday evening after making a landing at the alternate spot on the lake at just […]