Good morning!
Heading back to work and school following the holiday weekend will be a tricky one. Snowfall across the region ranges from a dusting to 6 inches. Road conditions vary from snow covered and slippery to wet with scattered slick spots. Traffic volumes are light.

Luna is the next big thing
She's an actor, a model and a singer, with work experience that ranges from posing for a Frito-Lay promotion to appearing in a commercial for a theme park.

UK Finalists of the Land Rover G4 Challenge announced
Victoria Pendleton, Olympic gold medallist swapped the track for the field this weekend as she supported competitors at the UK National Selections of the Land Rover G4 Challenge.

Slaughter on the highways
LANDER --The Cowboy State lost more than $7 million worth of deer last year to vehicle collisions, according to state estimates.

UT scientist drops research that he says pollutes
Going with his conscience, an astronomy professor at the University of Texas has decided to back out of a NASA project that he spent about a decade working on because he thinks it excessively harms the environment.

Vettori applies kiss principle
A n impressive exhibition of slow bowling from Daniel Vettori kept an otherwise undistinguished New Zealand side alive in a match played on another dead batting track.

Lofty lefty Vettori applies the kiss principle to good effect - keep it slow, spinner
An impressive exhibition of slow bowling from Daniel Vettori kept an otherwise undistinguished New Zealand side alive in a match played on another dead batting track, writes Peter Roebuck.

Local News
Brocket RCMP joined forces with Piikani Addiction Services and Mental Health last Thursday to raise awareness about drunk driving.

Shoppers wake early, stand in line for deals
The only thing as certain as leftovers the day after Thanksgiving are the stories of those who snatch up that must-have item of the new year, those who are in it for the thrill of the hunt.

Oregon Recreation Report
The Oregon Recreation report (fishing, hunting, viewing), updated Tuesday, Nov. 25

Illuminating escapes
(By Lisa Fletcher, Special to the Observer) Thanksgiving's over and the ?Black Friday? shopping frenzy has subsided. It's time to relax for the holidays. And that means getting out of town. An enormous array of outdoor and indoor holiday light displays and festivals are offered within hours of Charlotte. Care to simply saunter through a small town robed in holiday magic? Prefer a weekend full of ...

Gun dealers aim to meet demand
Fresno gun dealers are spending a lot of time on the phone these days, trying to find pistols, shotguns and military-style semiautomatic rifles to sell to anxious gun owners.

Basement can be a winter playground
MILWAUKEE -- The mercury is beginning to dip along with the falling leaves. Soon the same children who are anticipating snowflakes will begin complaining about frozen fingers and toes.

Locals unsure of Kyogle rally route
SUPPORTER: David Lander, Lismore Speedway?s promotions officer, will be one of those at the Kyogle rally. LOCALS have been kept in the dark about the proposed route of the Repco Rally, due to take place in Kyogle and Tweed Heads next September 2009.

Manitoba/National News
WINNIPEG ? Manitoba?s proposed new driver merit system will allow motorists to accumulate up to 15 merits for good driving instead of the current cap of five.

Planet Ark
OSLO - Giant cave bears froze to death during the last Ice Age in Europe about 28,000 years ago, according to a study on Wednesday that cleared human hunters of driving them to extinction thousands of years later.

Mitsubishi Colt Plus second for fuel cyefficien
The Mitsubishi Colt Plus has proven that the hype over hybrid cars is exactly that.

Cave bears killed by Ice Age
Giant cave bears froze to death during the last Ice Age, according to a study that cleared human hunters of driving them to extinction many years later.

Deer tally is bucking the trend
JACKSON -- It has been a strange firearms deer season. Hunters in some of the best whitetail areas, not just in the state but the country, report that the many bucks they saw before Nov. 15 often simply disappeared by the opening weekend.

Clamdigging Around Rowayton
At the commissioners' special meeting held Monday night, it was approved to expend $50,000 to 65,000 for repairs and renovations of Pinkney House. And it was voted for the Fire Department to purchase a new 1500 GPM Pumper Fire Truck.