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An upside-down American flag waves over a roadblock set up by protestors at the main entry to the Oceti Sakowin camp.

Protesters Leave Dakota Access Pipeline Area; Some Stay And Are Arrested

The governor of North Dakota had set Wednesday as the evacuation deadline for the largest protest camp. The Trump administration is allowing the pipeline to be built, despite the protests.

So Far This Year, No Human West Nile Cases Reported In San Diego

But more batches of infected mosquitoes have been found locally than in 2015, environmental health officials reported Thursday.

More than 1 million cars pass through the roughly 60-mile stretch of the Big Sur coastline each year.

Commuting By Foot: Big Sur Residents Struggle With Life After Mudslide

Most mornings and afternoons, a newly built footpath that plunges through a grove of towering redwoods is clogged with workers and school kids.

Actors Adam West (L)and Burt Ward dressed as their characters (Zappp!) "Batman" and (Powww!) "Robin," on Jan. 27, 1989 at the "World of Wheels" custom car show in Chicago.

Adam West Saved Batman. And Me.

NPR's resident Bat-scholar Glen Weldon offers a personal remembrance of the late Adam West, explains how the actor rescued the character of Batman from oblivion, and explores his enduring legacy.

Damage to the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, Calif., caused by heavy rains, has stranded residents and denied access to tourists in the popular area.

Commuting By Foot: Big Sur Residents Struggle With Life After Mudslide

Most mornings and afternoons, a newly built footpath that plunges through a grove of towering redwoods is clogged with workers and school kids.

The Airlander 10 took its first test flight at Cardington, north of London, marking a return of airships to the historic airfield.

'Flying Bum' Airship Takes Flight In England

The Airlander 10 — billed as the world's longest aircraft — took off from an airfield north of London this week. Yet it's the airship's bulbous, multi-chambered design that has captured attention.

An Aedes aegypti mosquito, known to be a carrier of the Zika virus, acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute of Sao Paulo University in Brazil, Jan. 18, 2016.

Area In Normal Heights To Be Sprayed For Mosquitoes Friday

San Diego County vector control workers will begin spraying pesticide in part of the Normal Heights neighborhood Friday morning in an effort to kill mosquitoes discovered near the home of a man who contracted the Zika virus while traveling.

First Human West Nile Case Reported In San Diego Area This Year

A 51-year-old El Cajon woman donated blood on July 27 and was found to have evidence of active West Nile infection.

Snow falls on the Oceti Sakowin camp on Wednesday as structures smolder.

Protesters Leave Dakota Access Pipeline Area; Some Stay And Are Arrested

The governor of North Dakota had set Wednesday as the evacuation deadline for the largest protest camp. The Trump administration is allowing the pipeline to be built, despite the protests.

African runner peanuts were once a defining flavor of the South, memorialized in songs, peanut fritters, peanut soup and in Charleston's signature candy, the peanut-and-molasses groundnut cake. But by the 1930s the nuts had all but disappeared.

The Lost Ancestral Peanut Of The South Is Revived

Brought to America by enslaved West Africans, the Carolina African runner was a defining taste of the antebellum South. Now, from just 40 remaining seeds, it's come back from the brink of extinction.

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