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'This Is Not a Pizza Box' headlines 28 shows on view at area art centers in June

In June, there are 28 shows at art centers throughout Southwest Florida, including “This Is Not a Pizza Box” at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center.

The Upper Tularik Floodplain in the Bristol Bay watershed in Alaska is the site of a fight over a proposed mining project has dragged on for years.

In Reversal, EPA Leaves Restrictions On The Table As It Considers Alaska Mine Permits

In a surprise announcement, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the agency will not rescind protections imposed in 2014, based on assessments the mine would cause significant harm to the watershed.

Racoon Point was constructed in the 1970s and is one of two oil drilling sites in Big Cypress. Burnett Oil wants to expand drilling in the preserve to two additional locations.

Texas Company Searching For Oil In Big Cypress Wants To Start Drilling Next Year

Burnett Oil has asked state environmental regulators to construct two roads and concrete pads on wetlands in the national preserve and hopes to begin drilling by 2022.

Friends of the Everglades debuts nine-part documentary about former and current threats to the River of Grass

The Everglades Story is being presented free online by Friends of the Everglades, a nonprofit environmental group founded in 1969 by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Organizers of a newsroom union at the <em>Chicago Tribune </em>have given the <em>Tribune</em>'s parent company, Tronc, a day to voluntarily recognize the guild and start to negotiate a contract.

Newsroom To 'Chicago Tribune': With 85 Percent Backing, We Have Votes For Union

Tribunejournalists give corporate owner Tronc a day to recognize the union voluntarily. Otherwise, they say they will force a federal vote that "will result overwhelmingly in our favor."

Supreme Court conservatives are skeptical on spiritual advisers in death chamber

The subject has, at times, divided the court's conservative majority and it has also at times embarrassed the court, as minority religious advisers have sometimes been excluded from the chamber.

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Breve Informe de COVID-19 del 28 de Enero, 2022

El numero de pacientes con COVID en los hospitales Lee Health y NCH se actualizan, la FDA cierra los sitios de tratamiento de anticuerpos monoclonales, donde puede hacerse la prueba y vacunarse en Immokalee, y cuándo llegarán a nuestro estado máscaras N95 gratuitas de la Administración Biden.

Operations to resume Saturday at Captiva Post Office; other SWFL postal sites remain suspended

Effective Saturday, retail operations and Post Office Box service will resume at the Captiva Post Office, which had been suspended due to Hurricane Ian.

Immokalee Foundation students learn virtual welding at an FGCU STEM camp.

Microsoft empowers area youth through TechSpark Immokalee

TechSpark Immokalee aims to revolutionize education, bridging digital skills with real-world opportunities for students in Immokalee, Florida.

Workers install a sign reading "Alligator Alcatraz" at the entrance to a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla.

Lawmakers 'only' to be given tour of 'Alligator Alcatraz' Saturday

State lawmakers and members of Congress will be able to visit a controversial immigrant-detention center in the Everglades on Saturday, after some Democratic legislators last week were denied access to inspect the facility. The Florida Division of Emergency Management on Wednesday sent an email inviting “congressional and state legislators” to tour the detention center, which state officials hurriedly erected as part of an effort to help President Donald Trump’s deportation of undocumented immigrants.

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