If you’re longing to escape to the Oregon coast, head as far north as you can until you meet the Columbia River and settle into Astoria. The oldest city in Oregon is famous for fun, from craft beer savored slowly on cool decks to grab-and-go burgers and bakery treats. Fort […]
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Clarissa Carson cradled her baby girl in her arms and felt her heart drop. The ICU nurse looked out her front window, barely making out trees across the street. Dense, choking smoke — the result of nearby wildfires — had settled in her hometown of Medford, Oregon, a city of […]
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More than half a million Defense Department and Coast Guard civilian employees with a Common Access Card will be able to shop in military exchange stores by mid-May, according to a new Department of Defense directive. The directive extends in-store and online exchange shopping privileges to appropriated fund and non-appropriated […]
Discover Yorkshire Coast, the tourism body for Scarborough Borough Council, has today announced an exciting new initiative designed to showcase the region as a year-round destination and change perceptions through the art of surprise. © Credits: Discover Yorkshire Coast Discover Yorkshire Coast The new campaign, entitled – ‘The Place Full […]
The single biggest hit to fishermen from the COVID-19 virus is lower dock prices, according to Alaska and West Coast harvesters, and 98% said their businesses have been badly bashed by the pandemic. That’s based on survey results compiled by Ocean Strategies, a public relations firm that focuses on fisheries […]
HALIFAX — While much of the rest of Canada was consumed with stories about politicians ignoring pandemic protocols and jetting south to sunny climes, Atlantic Canadians this week were puzzling over a tepid scandal involving a New Brunswick cabinet minister who drove to Nova Scotia. © Provided by The Canadian […]
Airlines have canceled upward of 600 flight after the parts of Northeast received a foot of snow or more with additional precipitation expected to fall through Thursday morning. Snow fell from northern Virginia to parts of New England on Wednesday. It carried on north into the evening, sustaining a storm […]
Airlines canceled more than 700 U.S. flights Wednesday and 560 for Thursday as the Northeast and mid-Atlantic prepare for what is being forecast as the biggest winter storm in years, which threatens to dump up to 2 feet of snow on some areas. The National Weather Service said: “A widespread […]
Erica Van Buren | The Daytona Beach News-Journal PALM COAST — City Council members will vote Tuesday on whether to renew the nearly $176,000 licensing agreement for Palm Coast Connect, a 311 citizen engagement platform. According to city officials, Palm Coast Connect has allowed for a more streamlined engagement between city staff […]
Question: Can a test taken in Honolulu before departure be used to return to Honolulu without quarantine if the entire trip falls within the 72-hour window? Answer: No. “Results from a test taken in Hawaii are not acceptable to bypass quarantine requirements upon return from travel on the mainland,” said […]
SEATTLE — The global pandemic has resulted in a dramatic reshuffling of the annual cruise of the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star. Instead of heading south into the unending light of the Antarctic summer, the Seattle-based vessel will journey north into the winter darkness of the Arctic. As late as August, the 134 full-time crew […]
The Week I was wrong about Mitt Romney The Donald Trump phenomenon is purported to have divided friendships, families, and even marriages. I can attest to this fact in my own suburban Washington household, for this perhaps peculiar professional reason: It has occasioned my wife, the longtime sufferer of all […]
CLOSE Buy Photo Guests at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex view the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit. (Photo: FLORIDA TODAY FILE PHOTO) National Geographic Travel this week named Florida’s Space Coast as one of the world’s top five destinations for travelers to consider when planning a family-oriented vacation in 2021 and […]
If you’re planning to vote in person on Election Day today, be sure to check that your polling place hasn’t changed. You can look up the polling location for your address on the Secretary of State’s website. Here’s the list of polling locations for each Coastal county. If you have […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Zeta slammed into the storm-weary Gulf Coast on Wednesday, pelting the New Orleans metro area with rain and howling winds that ripped apart buildings and knocked out power to thousands before rapidly making its way through Mississippi and Alabama with strong gusty winds, heavy rains […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Zeta slammed into storm-weary Louisiana on Wednesday with New Orleans squarely in its path, pelting homes and businesses with rain and high winds and threatening to push up to 9 feet of sea water inland in a Gulf Coast region already pounded by multiple storms […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana braced Wednesday for what is expected to be its third hurricane strike this year as Zeta, the 27th named storm of a historically busy Atlantic hurricane season, headed toward an expected landfall south of New Orleans. Zeta raked across the Yucatan Peninsula Tuesday, striking as […]
This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Zeta, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, at 2110 GMT (5:10 p.m. ET). AP NEW ORLEANS Zeta re-strengthened into a hurricane early Wednesday as Louisiana braced for the 27th named storm of a historically busy Atlantic hurricane season. […]
CANCUN, Mexico — Zeta has been downgraded back to Tropical Storm status but continues to pose a possible threat to south Louisiana. As of 10 a.m., Tuesday, the storm has whipped through Cancun and is on track towards the Gulf coast, according to updates from the National Hurricane Center. Weather […]
CANCUN, Mexico — Zeta has been downgraded back to Tropical Storm status but continues to pose a possible threat to south Louisiana. As of 5 a.m., Tuesday, the storm has whipped through Cancun and is on track towards the Gulf coast, according to updates from the National Hurricane Center. Weather […]