Category Archives: National

Wattle City Meats wins best bacon

...John Bartlett is fast putting Maryborough on the nation's meat map. Fresh from last year's national award for his smoked ham, John has scored the state's top prize for his bacon. Wattle City Meats wowed judges of the Australian Pork Corporation annual awards...

NOAA expects busy hurricane season

...The forecast was issued from the new NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Md., instead of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. NOAA wanted to highlight its new building; also the forecasters who produce the annual hurricane predictions...

Hurricane forecast: Another busy Atlantic season

...May 23, 2013 calls for 13 to 20 named storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes. The prediction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is more than whats considered an average Atlantic season....

Boy Scouts Voting on Gay Youths, Results Expected Soon

...with a petition in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters, Feb. 4, 2013, in Dallas, Texas. The Boy Scouts of America's national council is voting in Grapevine, Texas, on a proposal to allow gay youths to be members, potentially ending a policy that...

Discovered: Molecule That Triggers Itchiness

...as an itch begins. What really causes itching, and how it works, is surprisingly little understood. But researchers at the National Institutes of Health will publish a paper tomorrow in Science that details the discovery of a small molecule released in the...

RI gets $2.5 million to remove household lead hazards

...lead hazard assessments. The Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. will administer the funds, which are part of a national $98 million initiative to fight lead poisoning. Lead paint was banned for residential use more than 30 years ago but it continues...

Overseer review questions arable application

...As councils work to model, measure and attempt to regulate agriculturally-derived nutrient-leaching in response to the National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management, many farmers have questioned Overseer's appropriateness for the task. The review panel's...

Details Released on California Health Exchange

...providers, as well as from carriers that have been focused largely on Medicaid plans, such as Molina Healthcare Inc. Major national health insurers had previously signaled that they plan to participate in only a limited number of the new marketplaces created...