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Holderness sued Sarasota County over public access to his private beach near Beach Access 3. (Photos: Suncoast searchlight) In 2016, Florida businessman Michael Holderness began buying four beachfront lots on Siesta Key. A decade and several lawsuits later, those four lots are set to become public beach property under a settlement with Sarasota County, while…

R-Urban Poplar, an ecology hub in east London, features community growing spaces, workshops and gardens on the Teviot Estate. (Image: R-Urban Poplar) A community project in east London is testing an unusual way of turning household food waste into energy. At R-Urban Poplar, an ecology hub on the Teviot Estate, food scraps collected from nearby…

Image: @thesnakeaholic​ A striking clip out of Florida shows a massive invasive female python curled around a mound of eggs, tucked deep in thick ferns. The footage captured wildlife creator thesnakeaholic documenting the snake’s removal after she was found brooding over a hidden nest. The nest turned out to be far more than a spectacle;…

Drivers in Florida are paying more at the pump as petrol prices continue to climb, with some stations already charging more than $5 a gallon for regular gas. On Wednesday, September 23, gas prices at a Delray Beach Shell station hit $5.19 a gallon, Reuters reported. Some rural stations are charging even more.The statewide average…

Mullett is a mother of 10 and also runs an Indigenous food business (Image Credit: gofundme/ Maryanne Mullett) An Ontario mother of 10 who was seriously injured while helping stranded motorists says she received only about C$6,300 from a GoFundMe campaign that raised roughly C$19,000 for her recovery and family. Maryanne Mullett said in an…

The new setup can pump groundwater seven days a week, without relying on electricity from the grid or a generator. That has allowed the cleanup operation to run more consistently while increasing the volume of water that can be removed from the affected area. A small shift in how groundwater is collected is making a…

Twitch streamers KitsuFox and Nosiiree are at the center of a breakup controversy after KitsuFox accused her ex-boyfriend of repeatedly contacting her after their relationship ended. During a September 23 livestream, KitsuFox claimed that Nosiiree kept finding ways to reach her after she blocked him and changed her phone number. She also said he showed…

The couple says their children built independent lives, fulfilling the dream behind the restaurant. A Colorado couple who moved from Mexico to the US in 1995 with a dream of giving their three children a different future, have closed the restaurant they built over 31 years. Jose and Maria Caballero shut Los Tarascos in Fort…

Priscilla Chan is the co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Image Credit: Jessica Chou/Chan Zuckerberg Initiative(CZI) Priscilla Chan has supported thousands of Bay Area residents through the ‘Partnership for the Bay’s Future,’ a programme created to tackle the region’s shortage of affordable homes. 5 years after its launch, the initiative had protected more…

Customers with disabilities and older adults said that they were allegedly pressured into spending thousands of dollars at Bee & Co.’s mall-based skincare stores across the Southland, according to CBS California. Now, California congressman Rep. Brad Sherman, whose congressional district includes the Westfield Topanga mall in Canoga Park, said he plans to bring the allegations…