Jun
11

A second day of hot weather and dry wind stoked new wildfires across Northern California on Wednesday, as firefighters battled blazes that have damaged at least 50 homes and threaten hundreds more.
About 1,500 residents in the heavily forested hills north of Santa Cruz were told Wednesday afternoon to leave their homes as a quick-moving wildfire [...]

Jan
01

Campbell Bary’s passion for wool knows no bounds. It causes normal social courtesies and politeness to go out the window. “When I meet a sheep farmer who’s wearing polyester or polarfleece or any of that synthetic crap then I tell them straight, it’s no use moaning to me about the price of wool,” he says. [...]