Snowfall in Lexington and Rockbridge County challenged state and local road maintenance workers, leading to delays and difficult travel conditions as crews worked to clear major routes.
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The city of Lexington is holding public meetings on the proposed stormwater fee and an additional water rate increase. Residents can ask questions to city staff and request a fee estimate. City council will likely vote on the stormwater fee after the first of the year.
A 35-acre solar array project has been proposed and debated over numerous meetings with various Rockbridge County agencies.
Authorities are pleading with residents to evacuate parts of greater Los Angeles. Low humidity and high winds are complicating firefighting efforts.
The famous bear was one of the oldest who continued to have cubs every year. She was a celebrity in the Grand Teton National Park region.
Hurricane Helene’s death toll could rise higher still, a week after the storm came ashore in Florida before carving a path of destruction through the Southeast. Searchers have made their way towards remote places in the mountains of western North Carolina, where the storm washed out roads and knocked out electricity, water and cellular service.
The new water bill increase would go into effect next July with a new stormwater fee phased in over time.
Tropical storm force winds began battering Florida on Thursday as Hurricane Helene prepared to make landfall, with forecasters warning that the enormous storm could create a “nightmare” surge along the coast and churn up damaging winds hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S.
Local students were let out of school early to watch the eclipse.
The majority of the fire is inside the 200,000-acre park and is about 10% contained.