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Missouri Supreme Court upheld the family’s $2.1 million award for land taken for Highway 141. In 1904, a Missouri family acquired 15 acres of land in what is now Chesterfield. More than a century later, St Louis County condemned the property for a highway project, turning the land into the centre of a long legal…

Mayne is challenging drilling rights beneath the mountain where he lives and has brought other landowners into the dispute. (Photo: The Slope) A Colorado motorcycle instructor and Desert Storm veteran is continuing his fight against oil and gas drilling rights beneath his mountain after federal regulators rejected his protest. Joel Mayne, who lives near Craig…

Aubry Allbridge, a 22-year-old woman from Utah with Down syndrome, has become a certified fitness instructor for the fitness programme UpBeat Barre. She recently took another step in her journey by leading her first class at a local gym, with 60 people attending the session.Allbridge had been attending several fitness classes before becoming an instructor,…

Almost eight years after the fire, a $26 million rebuilding project is nearing completion. For nearly a century, Paramount Ranch in California’s Santa Monica Mountains was linked to Hollywood filmmaking. The 2,700-acre property was bought by Paramount Pictures in 1927 and used as an outdoor filming location. Between 1927 and 1943, the studio made more…

Far below the surface of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, where sunlight disappears and fishing grounds give way to deep water, three unusual fish specimens had been sitting in scientific collections for years. They would eventually become the basis for describing a species unknown to science. At the centre of that work was Naidely Valeria Vidaurre-Quesada,…

Over 1,300 have been killed, while 5,000 are still missing It’s been more than 10 days since a glacial collapse sent freezing water, rocks and debris roaring down Nepal’s Bhotekoshi and Trishuli valleys.The death toll has risen to 1,357, while 5,326 people remain missing, according to Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. Rescue…

Midpen staff had discovered purple martins nesting in holes inside similar poles near the mountain top while working on Mount Umunhum. California crews left old telephone poles standing while restoring about 40 acres of land at Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve because purple martins use holes in the poles as nesting sites. The decision came…

In 1970, George Harrison bought Friar Park and discovered a grand Victorian estate whose once-famous gardens had fallen into neglect. Weeds, ivy and brambles had taken over parts of the grounds, the lake needed repairs, and the carefully shaped yews had grown into dense, unruly masses. Harrison set about restoring the landscape, clearing vegetation and…

Brünig Mega Safe, a company owned by Swiss entrepreneur Thomas Gasser, is drilling into the Alpine rocks to build 20 mega bunkers more than 100 metres underground, designed to safeguard the wealth of the super-rich. The project, being executed beneath the mountains of the Brunig Pass, near the village of Lungern, is led by the…

A wildlife centre in North Florida has welcomed two red-ruffed lemurs, turning encounters with the critically endangered animals into a way to support rainforest restoration thousands of miles away in Madagascar. The North Florida Wildlife Center in Lloyd, Jefferson County, is now home to four ruffed lemurs. Two of them, newly arrived red-ruffed lemur males,…