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Westwold property owner loses land, barn and bridge in rising river | iNFOnews

22/05/202321/04/2025dansa

The overflowing Salmon River at 8440 Douglas Lake Road in Westwold.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/ Sterett Mercer

May 11, 2023 – 7:00 AM

A property owner in Westwold is losing land and structures after the Salmon River crested on May 6, and is now under a local emergency order with the TNRD.

Strett Mercer, whose primary home is in Burnaby, spent a few harrowing days at the property in Westwold over the weekend as river waters eroded his land, took out a farm bridge and threatened to topple his barn. He said two large trees fell down and were backing up the even more flow, directing more water to the bank edge.

“It was scary, I’ve never seen a river run like that,” he said. “I was with the neighbor, wondering if I should pull everything out of the barn to save it, trying to figure out what to do.”

Mercer hesitated to take action, concerned about provincial regulations around working around rivers and elements of whether the costs of trying to stop the erosion himself would be covered by insurance. He set up a security camera and returned to

Oprah Winfrey Buys 870 Acres in Maui

01/05/202321/04/2025dansa

Oprah Winfrey has significantly expanded her real estate holdings in Hawaii.

The billionaire media mogul purchased a whopping 870 acres of land in several sales for a total of $6.6 million in the Kula area of the island of Maui, KITV4 reported.

Winfrey bought about 520 acres for $3.9 million and 330 acres for $2.5 million, from the seller, Hawaii-based Ulupalakua Ranch, Maui Now reported. She paid about $100,000 for the other 20 acres in separate transactions, the outlet said.

Winfrey, according to the outlet, owned already more than 1,000 acres of property in Kula and is one of the largest landowners on Maui, KITV4 and Maui Now said. She also bought 200 acres of land in Hana in the early and mid-2000s, Maui Now reported.

The land Winfrey recently purchased is zoned for agricultural use, KITV4 reported.

Winfrey, who has been a part-time resident of Maui for some 15 years, has filmed taking hikes with her friend, Gayle King, on the island, Maui Now says.

“Y’all should come here,” Winfrey wrote in a social media post, according to Maui Now. “Hawaiian hashtags, state of health. That’s the aloha spirit.”

Winfrey has been active with other real estate

Startup attempts the world’s first commercial lunar touch down

25/04/202321/04/2025dansa

A photo of the Moon taken from the ispace lander’s onboard camera from an altitude of 100km above the lunar surface (ispace)

A Japanese startup will attempt the first commercial lunar landing in history on Tuesday.

Tokyo-based ispace plans to land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon as part of the Hakuto-R Mission 1, which launched on 11 December 2022 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The lander has been in lunar orbit since 21 March, with the touchdown expected to take place at 5.40pm BST.

A live stream of the Moon landing will be broadcast on ispace’s YouTube channel at 4pm, offering people around the world to follow its progress.

You can follow all the latest news and updates in our live coverage below. The live stream will also be available as soon as it launches.

Alternative landing dates have been set for 26 April, 1 May and 3 May, depending on the operational status of the mission. Different landing sites have also been proposed by ispace, with the primary target being the Atlas Crater.

Moon landing live: ispace shares photos from the lander

11:49 a.m , Anthony Cuthbertson

With ispace’s lunar lander still in orbit, the startup has

Queens Assemblyman Clyde Vanel crash lands plane on Long Island beach

18/03/2023dansa

Queens Assemblyman Clyde Vanel crashes and lands a small airplane he was piloting on a Long Island beach Friday afternoon in a scary scene that was captured on video.

Vanel told CBS 2 that he and a friend took off in his single-engine Beechcraft from Brookhaven Airport around 2 pm “to practice some maneuvers” in the nice weather.

Suddenly, however, a pleasant day in the skies turned to terror when the plane’s engine lost power.

“Of course I was panicked. I didn’t understand what was going on with the engine,” Vanel said.

But Vanel regained his composure and said that his emergency training kicked in.

“Airspeed, find the best place to land, communicate and then exit,” he said. “The best place for me to land was a small area that had a beach that wasn’t around people, that wasn’t around stuff.”

The single-engine Beechcraft landed on a beach in Shoreham.

Only one woman was on the Shoreham beach at the time — Caelyn Canace, who captured the heart-stopping landing on video, obtained by CBS 2.

The dramatic footage shows the plane descending fast before landing on its belly on the sand.

It slides several feet before

A Lufthansa flight headed for Germany was forced to land early after running into severe turbulence. A passenger says ‘food and people’ went flying into the

02/03/2023dansa

Tails of Lufthansa aircraft in Frankfurt, Germany. — Lufthansa said the type of turbulence encountered can occur without warning.Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Lufthansa flight from Austin to Frankfurt was forced to land after running into fierce turbulence.
Lufthansa said the turbulence was severe, and was a type that can occur without warning.
A passenger told The Washington Post that they were having dinner and food going flying.

A Lufthansa flight from Austin, Texas, to Frankfurt was forced to land near Washington DC on Wednesday evening after running into severe turbulence, the airline and authorities said.

At least seven people were injured and sent to hospital because of the turbulence, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority told Insider in a statement.

Flight 469 diverted to Dulles International Airport and landed at around 9:10 pm, the authority said.

In a statement to Insider, a Lufthansa spokesperson said the plane was hit by “brief severe turbulence” around 90 minutes after it took off from Austin.

“This was so-called clear air turbulence, which can occur without visible weather phenomena or advance warning,” the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson said some passengers had sustained “minor injuries” and that flight attendants administered care onboard before the emergency landing.

An unnamed passenger on the

Missouri football lands first commitment in 2024 recruiting class from in-state tight end

26/02/2023dansa

Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz jogs off the field before a game against Arkansas on Nov. 25, 2022, in Columbia, Mo.

Missouri football landed its first commitment of the 2024 recruiting class on Saturday, and it came from in-state. Joplin tight end Whit Hafer announced his decision on social media.

“Thankful and blessed to announce my commitment to The University of Missouri,” Hafer said in a Tweet.

Hafer was rated as a three-star prospect at tight end by 247Sports. He chose the Tigers over offers from Kansas, Kansas State and UNLV.

He is listed in his Twitter bio as standing 6-foot-7 and weighing 235 pounds. 247Sports ranked him as the No. 32 tight end nationally in his class, and the No. 15 best prospects in the state of Missouri.

The 2024 class became Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s second in a row to have an in-state tight end as its first commitment. The class of 2023 started out with Brett Norfleet committing to the Tigers.

Residing in the Show Me State wasn’t Hafer’s only connection to the MU program. His father, Jeff Hafer, played four years of basketball for the Tigers from 1996-2000, when he bridged the head coaching tenures

China isn’t leader in land ownership in South Dakota, the USDA says

18/02/2023dansa

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Gov. Kristi Noem is concerned, and at least several lawmakers are concerned, about foreign ownership of agricultural land.

The state already has a law that restricts foreign ownership of agricultural land by a person or government to 160 acres. But the proposal in 2023 appears to be more restrictive than state law 43-2A-2 passed in 1979.

The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee voted 7-0 on Feb. 14 to send SB-185 forward to the full Senate. The bill calls for creating a board to review purchases or leases of agricultural land by foreign persons or entities, with the governor deciding whether to allow a transaction to proceed.

Noem is focused on Chinese-ownership of agricultural land.

“We also have a duty to protect South Dakota land from national security threats. Possibly the greatest external threat facing our nation today is the Chinese Communist Party. Unfortunately, foreign countries now hold approximately 40 million acres of ag land in the United States – and that number will only increase as evil governments like China step up their game,” Noem wrote in an opinion piece published on Feb. 2 on news.sd.gov.

Multiple media have reported about the Chinese Community

Queensland police union wants to buy Wieambilla property so it can’t be used to promote ‘warped views’ | Queensland

13/02/2023dansa

The remote bushland property where two police officers were murdered could be used as a retreat or training center if the Queensland government agreed to clear the way to its purchase.

Constables Matthew Arnold, 26 and Rachel McCrow, 29, died in a hail of gunfire after pulling up to the rural property at Wieambilla, three hours west of Brisbane, on 12 December.

Neighbor Alan Dare was also gunned down when conspiracy theorists Gareth Train, his partner, Stacey Train, and brother Nathaniel Train opened fire upon their approach.

The officers were checking the property, owned by Gareth and Stacey Train, while conducting a missing person check for Nathaniel Train.

The Queensland Police Union said on Tuesday it wanted to buy the block and had asked the government for help resuming the land.

“The QPU would never want to see this land fall into the hands of any other anti-vaxxer, pro-gun conspiracy theorist, sovereign citizens who may seek to utilize the reputation of this site to promote their own dangerous and warped views,” union head Ian Leavers told the Courier-Mail.

“That is why the QPU has an obligation to safeguard this property to protect the memories of the police who gave their

Wisconsin lands four-star USC transfer WR CJ Williams

13/01/2023dansa

It just keeps rolling for Luke Fickell, Phil Longo, and Wisconsin’s new staff. The latest bigsplash? The Badgers have officially landed four-star USC transfer CJ Williams in the transfer portal.

Williams was a top-100 recruit in the class of 2022, and had offers from the likes of Notre Dame, Alabama, Ohio State, Oregon, and Michigan coming out of high school.

He was the No. 6 wide receivers in the state of California coming out of high school according to 247Sports.

He played in ten games last season, and caught four passes for 34 yards. Georgia, Notre Dame, West Virginia, and Texas A&M were all heavily in on the California native during his transfer portal recruitment.

Here is a look at some of the reactions from Wisconsin fans and college football media:

Wisconsin landsCJ Williams:

A quick turnaround

The Air Raid is here:

New Wisconsin offensive coordinator Phil Longo:

A big-time portal addition:

The game changed:

Bat signal is up:

An ode to Barry Alvarez:

A massive win:

It didn’t take long:

Here we are:

What a week!

Story originally appeared on Badgers Wire

West Kootenay landowner seeks fair land-use compensation from power companies

09/01/2023dansa

A West Kootenay property owner is seeking fair compensation for landowners across the province.

Pend d’Oreille resident Jim Urquhart is putting out the call to BC landowners who have electrical transmission line right-of-ways on their private property, to come together and discuss what the government and civil society have determined constitutes fair, owed land-use compensation.

“It is time that utilities in BC paid the same land-use compensation that other energy producers in BC and Alberta that place above ground structures on private property consider fair,” said Urquhart. “If landowners in BC are ever to get fair, owed land-use compensation they will have to come together.”

Urquhart says that landowners are excluded from government funded advocacy offices available to other landowners in BC and Alberta facing similar circumstances.

“The problem is the framework that the BC utilities use to decide their compensation payment is based on a land value and there is no correlation between a land value and the total impact value for which landowners are owed.”

BC Hydro spokesperson, Mary-Ann Coules, confirmed that the majority of Statutory Right-of-Way (ROW) agreements are granted in perpetuity and are registered with the BC Land Title and Survey Authority.

Jim Urquhart has been