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SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire , saying Friday that the firefighter was already on track for legal status after helping federal inves

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

A Nova Scotian scuba diver can still picture the moment he came face to face with a great white shark during a routine dive on Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A simmering feud over management of one of North America’s longest rivers reached a boiling point when the U.S. Supreme Court sent western states and the federal government back to the negotiating table last year.

The $12M project follows years of uncertainty, evacuations and community lobbying for safer conditions along the landslide-prone creek

SMALL POINT-ADAM'S COVE-BLACKHEAD-BROAD COVE — People in Newfoundland returned on Friday to communities hardest hit by a massive wildfire, in some cases finding nothing left of their homes but concrete foundations and still-standing chimneys.

OTTAWA — Ottawa's one-stop shop for businesses to pitch plans for large industrial construction projects will be headquartered in Calgary and managed by former Trans Mountain CEO Dawn Farrell, the Prime Minister's Office said Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Rocking on his front porch overlooking the Mississippi Sound, former Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes questions how anyone wouldn’t want to live there. “People are always going to gravitate to the water,” he said.