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Luz Zuniga/StaffRecreational boaters at the Maori Pa Road property on Delaware Bay north of Nelson are protesting Nelson City Council’s ban on launching boats from the property. (File photo)A long-running dispute between an iwi and a recreational boating company over access to Delaware Bay at the top of the South Island is currently before the Environment Court. Nelson City Council has asked the court for a declaration that vehicles are not allowed to enter the Wakapuaka Estuary under the Nelson Resource Management Plan. This estuary has been used as a launch site by fishing and boating communities for decades due…
Written by Hazel Shearing & Susie LuckBBC news1 hour agoimage source, BBC/Hazel Shearingimage caption, Amanda and Elliot look at his diary every week to find out when he goes to school and when he has to study at home.Eleven-year-old Elliott was excited to be moving on to middle school this year. He was out to see other children who were due to attend the same Durham school when the government announced that school buildings built with a certain type of concrete would have to close immediately.Since then, Elliott hasn’t had many opportunities to talk to his new friends or other…
The 8th Annual Main & Mill Brewing Company and Barrelworks Streetfest on Saturday, Oct. 14 at Festus Main Street will feature 10 hours of live music.The music festival will be held from 1:00 PM to 11:00 PM on Main Street in front of the Brewery Restaurant (240 East Main Street) and in nearby shopping areas. During the event, Main Street will be closed to vehicle traffic from Mill Street to Adams Street.“The overall setup is the same as last year, with two stages,” said Main & Mill business owner and event organizer Denny Foster. “One band plays at a time.…
HARLINGEN, Texas (VALLEY CENTRAL) — The Tucker Act requires children in public schools to be taught about the dangers of fentanyl and other drug addictions. The danger of fentanyl has been identified throughout the Rio Grande Valley. Local authorities have blamed several recent overdoses on the drug, known as the fentanyl crisis. Tucker’s Law is named after 19-year-old Tucker Law from Leander, Texas, who passed away in 2021. Police say the man purchased what they believe to be the painkiller Percocet from Instagram. The pills were laced with fentanyl, which is believed to have taken his life. School districts in…
Australian Women’s Weekly, Australia’s first magazine dedicated exclusively to women’s interests, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. Although the magazine is known for its coverage centered on family and child-rearing, early editions of the weekly also created a space for Australian women to engage with politics through the lens of femininity. Since its inception in June 1933, the weekly magazine has provided Australian women with a forum to learn, discuss and debate a wide range of issues. The magazine’s coverage throughout the 1930s reveals how the magazine negotiated the tension between conservative and progressive views on women’s involvement in politics.…
Australian Women’s Weekly, Australia’s first magazine dedicated exclusively to women’s interests, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. Although the magazine is known for its coverage centered on family and child-rearing, early editions of the weekly also created a space for Australian women to engage with politics through the lens of femininity.Since its inception in June 1933, the weekly magazine has provided Australian women with a forum to learn, discuss and debate a wide range of issues. The magazine’s coverage throughout the 1930s reveals how the magazine negotiated the tension between conservative and progressive views on women’s involvement in politics.Weekly magazines…
From Monday, October 9, 2023 to Friday, October 13, 2023, Pepperdine’s Caruso School of Law invites students to participate in Mental Health Awareness Week. The week is an annual event featuring daily activities aimed at raising awareness of the national mental health crisis, specifically the national mental health crisis. Focuses on student mental health. From providing therapy dogs to provide emotional support to stressed students to sharing important student support resources available on campus, the week-long event aims to address the stigma behind mental health struggles. The aim is to provide a safe place for students to seek help when…
(JTA) — Many Israeli and Jewish schools are urging parents to limit their children’s access to social media apps such as TikTok and Instagram over concerns about increasing graphic content being shared from Israel and Gaza. ing.David Lange, who lives in Israel and runs the Israeli advocacy group Israellycool, posted a screenshot of a message from his daughter’s school on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The message, written in Hebrew and shared via a WhatsApp group, warned that Hamas could soon start sharing videos of captured Israeli and American hostages and urged parents to download TikTok…
By Poonam Agarwal, Nupur Sonar and Stephanie Hegarty BBC Eye investigation45 minutes agoTo play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browserVideo caption, Watch: Secretly recorded footage at two call centres that recover money for loan appsA blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap and humiliate people across India and other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. At least 60 Indians have killed themselves after being abused and threatened. A BBC undercover investigation has exposed those profiting from this deadly scam in India and China.Astha Sinhaa woke up to her aunt’s panicked voice on the…
SP Vasudeva Former HP Forest Chief Conservation Officer Biodiversity is an important natural resource that was managed in India under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, which was enacted on the insistence of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. The Act worked well through his three-tier governance structure of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), State Biodiversity Boards and Panchayat-level Biodiversity Management Committees. Rather than initiating measures to conserve, propagate and sustain biodiversity, the law announced earlier this year that it would deregulate and decriminalize its provisions, reduce compliance burdens and attract more investment. revised as a purpose. In…