President Barack Obama said Thursday that terrorism or a workplace dispute could have motivated a couple to carry out a deadly shooting rampage at a holiday party in California that left 14 people dead and 17 others injured. Speaking at the White House, Obama said, “It is possible this is terrorist related, but we don’t […]
Troopers reported via dispatch on Thursday that on Saturday, AST received a report of “a seriously ill woman in need of transport to the hospital from a cabin approximately 16 miles south of Manley Hot Springs.” Troopers immediately began collaboration with RCC to launch a military helicopter to the scene to pick up the woman […]
A study of life and extinctions among woolly mammoths and other ice-age animals suggests that interconnected habitats can help Arctic mammal species survive environmental changes. The study appears online Nov. 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Short periods of warm climate in the midst of the last ice age triggered boom-and-bust cycles in the populations of large mammals in […]
A record-breaking algal bloom continues to expand across the North Pacific reaching as far north as the Aleutian Islands and as far south as southern California. Coinciding with well above average sea surface temperatures across the North Pacific and West Coast of North America, the bloom is laced with some toxic species that have had […]