#local-officials

#local-officials

Hundreds of wildfires continued to blaze on Tuesday across Canada, exacerbating an already active wildfire season that was only expected to worsen, and sending smoke into portions of the United States, creating poor air quality levels.In Ontario, a layer of haze blanketed parts of Ottawa and Toronto, where Canadian officials warned residents about the poor air quality, as smoke moved in to portions of northern New York State and Vermont.

Image Migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border through a gap in concertina wire near El Paso on Monday.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times Texas National Guardsmen placed concertina wire on a gap migrants were using to cross from Mexico into the Untied States near El Paso on Tuesday.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times A member of the Texas Army National Guard near the border fence in El Paso on Tuesday night.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times The day before Title 42 was scheduled to end, hundreds of migrants gathered on the banks of the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas.

Ontario is investing millions of dollars on a provincewide strategy to identify and plug abandoned oil and gas wells.It is also giving $2.5 million to Chatham-Kent as the municipality continues to deal with the fallout from a 2021 explosion that levelled a building and injured 20 people.Natural Resources Minister Graydon Smith says the province will spend $23.6 million on an "action plan" to address risks of old wells.

House Republicans are taking up a series of pro-law enforcement bills this week, as the party grapples with cutting funding to federal law enforcement agencies.On Wednesday, the House passed a pair of bills one would make assaulting a law enforcement officer a deportable offense for migrants and the other would establish a program for officers to purchase a retired handgun from the agency that issued it to them with bipartisan support.

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

The tornado that swirled through Montebello for minutes on Wednesday recorded winds of 110 miles per hour, the strongest twister to touch down in Los Angeles County since 1983, according to the National Weather Service.The Montebello tornado - which cut a path nearly half a mile long - left 17 buildings damaged and 11 structures red-tagged, according to the National Weather Service and local officials.

The man suspected of stabbing four young children and two adults in a park in the French Alps is facing potential charges Saturday, after an attack that reverberated across France and beyond.The children, between 22 months and 3 years old, remain hospitalized, but the French president expressed hope after speaking to their doctors Friday that their conditions would continue to improve.

New Jersey's United States senators have joined the fight against New York City's plan to charge drivers on Manhattan's busiest streets, arguing that the tolls would unfairly burden suburbanites who must travel into the city for work.With weeks to go before the Federal Highway Administration is expected to approve the city's congestion pricing plan, Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, said Monday that he would introduce legislation this week meant to dissuade local officials from carrying on with plans to introduce the program as soon as next spring.

When it came time to split up the first batch of $15 billion Congress set aside last year to replace toxic lead pipes, Illinois officials had plenty of reasons to expect they would get the biggest share.Utility groups have long estimated the state leads the nation in the number of lead service lines connecting homes and two-flats to municipal water systems, largely because Chicago's plumbing code required use of the brain-damaging metal until 1986, decades after most other major U.S. cities had banned it.

More than 12 million people are under a heat advisory in the Pacific Northwest as temperatures through the weekend are expected to climb nearly 20 degrees higher than normal, with the extreme weather extending into Canada as the country contends with dozens of wildfires.National Weather Service forecasters said an abnormal area of high pressure will build a heat dome over the western United States and Canada, acting like a lid over the atmosphere, bringing clear skies and allowing temperatures to rise.

Close One house 'completely destroyed' after gas explosion in Swansea, council leader says Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A major incident has been declared in Swansea after a suspected gas explosion left one house in ruins and damaged neighbouring properties.

The road to Kherson is long, straight and empty.Vacant fields rise from either side.Entering town from the west, you pass the ATB supermarket, one of the mainstays of the city's shopping.It was blown up a few weeks ago, in the middle of the day, with shoppers inside.After that lie more crushed buildings, disassembled by Russian artillery shells.

Concerns growing about the safety of the Zaporizhizhia nuclear power plant as civilians ordered to evacuate.Russia has launched dozens of missiles and drones towards Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, injuring at least five people, amid growing concern about safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's biggest.

Decades after a mutilated body was found in a wooded area in northern Alabama, officials have identified the cold-case victim as a California man through intensive DNA technology and genetic genealogy.The body, found April 15, 1997, in Union Grove, Ala., was discovered along a creek, with its head, feet and hands removed, as well as other parts of the body mutilated, apparently in an attempt to make forensic identification more difficult, according to a news release this week from Alabama's Marshall County Sheriff's Office.

Russia launched a large-scale wave of strikes on Kyiv and across Ukraine, causing widespread destruction and injuries, as Moscow prepares for its Victory Day holiday that marks the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.At least five people were injured in attacks on Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said, while Russian missiles caused a huge fire at a foodstuff warehouse in the Black Sea city of Odesa.

Local Officials said they could not "secure the funds necessary to support the long-term sustainability of the school."Officials at the Cambridge Matignon School announced Tuesday that the school will be closing in June.In a letter to the school community, President of the school's Board of Trustees Marc-Anthony Hourihan said that the school will permanently close at the end of the current academic year.

KYIV, Ukraine As swarms of Russian soldiers stormed Ukrainian lines in furious assaults around two cities in the east on Tuesday, Ukraine set the stage for its own advance by making strikes deep behind Russian lines, including what appeared to be a drone attack on a vital logistical hub in the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

In this handout photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, Firefighters work at the side of an oil depot near Taqman in Krasnodar region, south of Russia.A Ukrainian drone caused a huge blaze at an oil depot behind Russian lines, Russian media reported Wednesday.

Russia is ramping up pressure on civilians in occupied parts of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials, whose forces have stepped up their assaults behind enemy lines ahead of a widely expected counteroffensive.The assault could prove a critical opportunity after 14 months of war, not just for Ukraine to regain territory but also for it to try and persuade its Western allies to send still more weapons and aid.

First lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Nashville, Tennessee, later Wednesday to attend a vigil honoring the lives lost in the mass shooting at The Covenant School, the White House announced.Following her visit to Ohio today to meet with military families, the First Lady will travel to Nashville, Tennessee to join a candlelight vigil to honor and mourn the lives of the victims of The Covenant School shooting, Biden spokesperson Vanessa Valdivia said in a tweet.

Thousands of civilians remaining in the region around the city of Bakhmut the site of a long, grueling battle in eastern Ukraine are living in abject conditions with scant access to basic necessities, according to international aid workers.The fighting in and around Bakhmut has been the most violent of recent months and does not appear to be letting up, with Russian and Ukrainian officials expressing this week an unwillingness to yield.

At least 10 civilians were killed and 20 wounded from long-range Russian bombardments in several parts of Ukraine on Friday, officials said.The casualties included two people who died in heavy Russian shelling of the town of Bilopillia in Sumy province in northern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said.

Wyoming is the first state in the country to specifically pass legislation to outlaw the FDA-approved abortion pill.Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon dines with USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue and local officials in Wright, Wyoming, on July 30, 2019.Lance Cheung / U.S. Department of Agriculture On March 17, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) signed a bill into law that will make it illegal to prescribe, sell or use "any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion."

Governments often claim covering gender-affirming care is too expensive, but analyses show the costs are relatively low.Sgt.Anna Lange in a video for Houston County's Sheriff's Department.Houston County 911 / YouTube When a transgender sheriff's deputy in Houston County, Georgia, requested that the department's health insurance plan cover gender-affirming surgeries, local officials refused to cover them, claiming it was too expensive.

French unions have announced a tenth day of strikes for Tuesday, March 28th in their ongoing battle to derail the French government's controversial pension reform.Published: 23 March 2023 20:10 CET French trade unions have called for a new day of nation-wide strikes and protests next Tuesday (March 28th), which will coincide with a scheduled visit by Britain's King Charles III to the country.

Russia has launched exploding drones that killed at least four people at a student dormitory near Kyiv, hours after Japan's prime minister left the Ukrainian capital following a show of support for the country.he attack in the city of Rzhyshchiv took place the same day Chinese leader Xi Jinping left Moscow after discussing his proposal for ending the war, which has been rejected by the West as a non-starter.

KYIV, Ukraine Three months after Ukrainians celebrated the expulsion of Russian forces from the city of Kherson, it is free of occupation but hardly at peace, a nebulous status that never seemed more clear than on Tuesday as Moscow suddenly stepped up its shelling there.Ukrainian officials said that Russian forces had bombarded towns and villages on the west bank of the Dnipro River, the front line between the warring sides in the southern Kherson region, pounding them with hundreds of shells from tanks and artillery and dropping explosives from drones.

An open competition to design a new urban quarter in Iceland will prioritize sustainable transportation in a region that's proactively transitioning out of car dependency - and it could serve as a model for how to fill similar holes in growing U.S. communities.In January, officials in the city of Reykjavik announced a contest to create a "dense, mixed, diverse and carbon neutral new urban quarter" in the Keldur region, a still-undeveloped 288 acre (roughly a 0.45 square mile) stretch of the capital city about a 30-minute bike ride from the core downtown.