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Air quality alert for St. Louis from Canadian wildfire smoke

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

St. Louis Air QualityST. LOUIS -- Dense smoke that has been dropping south from Canada has made it into the St. Louis area. Visibility dropped to between 2-3 miles from the Canadian wildfire smoke. A warm front moving in today will help kick the thickest smoke to the east by afternoon.The worst of the smoke will be around in the morning, with some improvement in the afternoon. However, then ozone will become a concern from midday into the afternoon. Between the two, we expect orange air quality for Wednesday and that means an Air Quality Alert is in effect. That means the air quality will be unhealthy for some with health and breathing issues and within vulnerable populations. You can see a map of the smoke here.A view of the Planetarium from Bommarito Automotive Group SkyFOX Helicopter Wednesday morning St. Louis radar: See a map of current weather here Scattered showers and thunderstorms are still possible this morning as the dome of heat starts to build our way. Rainfall amou...

Body found inside car early Wednesday morning, I-270 briefly closed

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

ST. LOUIS - There was a brief closure on Interstate 270 Wednesday morning. Police closed the ramp from southbound I-270 onto Interstate 70 when someone discovered a vehicle with a body inside.That was around 3:30 a.m. The body and the vehicle were taken away. Police reopened the highway ramp a little after 4:00 a.m. See the Springfield Cardinals and Silver Dollar City with Free Trip Tuesday in Springfield, MO! Officers have not released the identity of the deceased person or how they died. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Opinion: Could ecological restoration work become the new outdoor recreation fad?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

Driving back to Colorado State University with a van full of students after a day of working to heal some beat-up land north of Fort Collins, I wondered: Could ecological restoration be a new form of outdoor recreation?We’d spent the day building a sawbuck fence around a spring. From the spring, gravity would carry the water through a pipe to a stock tank in the middle of the pasture.On this land protected by a conservation easement, cows would no longer drink, pee and poop while trampling the spring’s vegetation. The spring could recover while the cattle drank clean water elsewhere.My students had spent the day outdoors in the company of their classmates doing challenging physical work. At the moment, though, the young people were trying not to fall asleep as we neared town.Yet all day I’d seen the light in their eyes, and I could tell they felt pride in learning and exercising skills they hadn’t had before. They also clearly liked the idea of giving something back to the land that...

Almost a dozen new businesses moving to downtown Denver, its suburbs and Colorado Springs

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

Almost a dozen new businesses recently announced moves or relocations into downtown Denver, its surrounding areas and Colorado Springs.• Law firm Clark Hill moved its new office to Lower Downtown this month from its former location in the Central Business District, expanding its square footage from 6,000 square feet to 12,000. “Our Denver location will still be a hub for cannabis work at the firm, but we’re looking to attract talented attorneys with practices in other industries to serve a broader audience,” said Robert Hoban, Denver member-in-charge. “This area is well-known in Denver as a dynamic, hip, everchanging, and sophisticated area.”• Cosmetics store Credo Beauty recently opened at Dairy Block at 1801 Blake St. in Suite 100 as the company’s 13th store.• Veterinarian Thrive Pet Healthcare opened a new urgent care clinic at 757 E. 20th Ave. last month. The network includes around 400 locations nationwide.• A new bar, Emerald Eye, is set to open in Larimer Square a...

One of Denver’s most anticipated new restaurants of 2023 opens today on East Colfax

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

Anna and Anthony Nguyen were beaming from ear to ear on the weekend of Sap Sua’s soft opening.The couple has been dreaming up their first restaurant for the last three years since they moved from Los Angeles, where they worked at award-winning restaurants Animal and Osteria Mozza, to Anna’s hometown of Longmont in early 2020. And after a few trial runs over the weekend, they are finally ready to see the dining room come to life.“It’s easy to feel like we’re at the finish line because we’re open and have gotten through constructions and inspections, but it really is just another starting line,” Anna said.Sap Sua, located at 2550 E. Colfax Ave., officially opens to the public today, June 28, at 4:30 p.m. Reservation slots will be available starting at 10 a.m. on the restaurant’s website. And the anticipation is real.Bon Appetit named Sap Sua one of its eight most-anticipated restaurant openings across the country this summer, and it’s also one of The Denver Post’s most-anticipated res...

Officers fatally shoot man who allegedly opened fire in their direction

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

A man who allegedly shot in the direction of officers was killed when police returned fire in the Manchester-Square area of Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, authorities said.The incident was reported just before 1 a.m. near the intersection of Western and Florence avenues. Video showed a heavy police presence following the shooting that left an unidentified 25-year-old man dead. Investigators say that officers were conducting a traffic stop when a man on foot approached and opened fire in their direction. A man who allegedly shot in the direction of officers was killed when police returned fire on June 28, 2023. (OnScene.TV)At least one officer returned fire, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed.Paramedics responded but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. It was unclear why the man started shooting at officers. No details were released on the nature of the traffic stop. Several people were detained following the incident but it was unknown if they were witnesses or ...

Electric car makers threatened by shortage of lithium batteries

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.General Motors Co. and the parent company of China’s BYD Auto Ltd. went straight to the source and bought stakes in lithium miners, a rare step in an industry that relies on outside vendors for copper and other raw materials. Others are investing in lithium refining or ventures to recycle the silvery-white metal from used batteries.A shortfall in lithium supplies would be an obstacle for plans to ramp up sales to tens of millions of electric vehicles a year. It is fueling political conflict over resources and complaints about the environmental cost of extracting them.“We already have that risk” of not being able to get enough, GM’s chief financial officer, Paul A. Jacobson, said at a Deutsche Bank conference in mid-June.“We’ve got to have...

Grabbitz is a Hero

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

Grabbitz is a Hero: Singer, songwriter, DJ and producer Grabbitz got interested in electronic music through his XBOX.“Oddly enough, I learned the early ideas of producing from an XBOX game called MTV Music Generator,” he says. “I was producing beats and songs for years before falling in love with dance/bass music, that’s when DJing came in. I was able to make it a career when I was around 20 and released my debut on Monstercat. Full circle moment.”He says that his sound today is hard to describe.“Lately I have been saying it’s like a new electronic alternative bass rock,” he says. “I’m all over the genre spectrum so it’s tough to pinpoint and usually varies by song.”Grabbitz believes that this is a great time for electronic music.“Electronic music has effectively seeped into almost every other genre, influencing it from one way or another,” he says. “And the scene itself seems healthy. There is a lot of cool stuff hap...

Bay Area Tonga Twins are slamming their way into history

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

Before tag team wrestling, throwing girls across the ring, and backslide slams in the ring, the Tonga Twins —Kaoz, born Steffanie and Kona, born Ashley — were born Ashley and Steffanie Manukainiu in Vallejo.The twins’ parents, Finau and Katiola Manukainiu, migrated from Tonga to the Bay Area, settling in Vallejo for better opportunities. The twins recall being raised “the island way” with a strict upbringing.Growing up, the Manikainiu family was one of the first Tongan families in Vallejo.“I just remember all those people who would ask, ‘What nationality are you?’ I would have to explain what a Tongan is,” said Kaoz.At 4, the twins were significantly taller than most of their classmates. One day their older siblings (Aiona and Christopher) were playing basketball and in the middle of a break, the twins jumped on the court striving to make a basket. The coaches around assumed the twins were old enough to play. Shortly after, the twins’ parents enrolled them in Vallejo Little League.T...

Three frontcourt players the Warriors could sign in free agency

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:59 GMT

General manager Mike Dunleavy Jr.’s offseason free agency check list is short, but challenging.First, re-sign Draymond Green. Second, sign frontcourt players who can shoot and play within the Warriors’ scheme.Finding such a frontcourt player could challenging given the Warriors’ free-agency restrictions enforced by the new collective bargaining agreement. As “second apron” violators this season, they are only allowed to re-sign their own players and sign free agents to veteran minimum contracts.Adding more to that challenge are the skills a player should possess to get minutes within the Warriors’ system. Head coach Steve Kerr prioritizes players who can rebound and defend their position, be a quick decision-maker within their motion offense and, to fill a frontcourt need, shoot the ball.“All we’re going to be able to have is minimums, so we have to work with that,” Dunleavy said on draft night. “We’re looking at vete...