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    South Florida water district names new director

    The governing board of the South Florida Water Management District on Thursday hired a new executive director: Blake Guillory, the current director of the Southwest Florida district and a former executive at major engineering firms that specialize in water projects.

  • Living Smart: Home generators

    When extreme weather hits, often one of the first luxuries lost is electrical power. Being without power for even a few hours can be inconvenient. Go without it longer, though, and it could also be very costly and even dangerous - from replacing spoiled food, to the potential for your home flooding without an active sump pump, to losing pets or even human lives if life-sustaining equipment can't work.

  • Diggin' In: No room for a tradition garden? No problem

    When you don't have or want a traditional garden, you can still enjoy homegrown vegetables and herbs, thanks to some alternative ways of planting.

  • Plan to save the pallid sturgeon spawns controversy

    It's been a half-dozen years of push and pull over how, and whether, to save an endangered fish in the Missouri River.

  • Report: Use of coal to generate power rises

    Power plants in the United States are burning coal more often to generate electricity, reversing the growing use of natural gas and threatening to increase domestic emissions of greenhouse gases after a period of decline, according to a federal report.

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