Fruit flies found in Pinellas County

Two male oriental fruit flies were found earlier this month in a grapefruit tree trap in the Gulf Coast community of Safety Harbor, Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson said.

Javelina Spotted Again At Northside Neighborhood

CORPUS CHRISTI - Over at a northside neighborhood, a woman says she spotted a javelina under her home for the second time. We've reported on wild javelinas in the same neighborhood before, and according to police, it's a big problem. "It's not unusual for animals to get into this particular area because they can get up along the ship channel, through the brush, and into this residential area ...

Scotland's finest hidden gems

SCOTLAND is a land of contrasts from the grand architecture found in its cities to the quiet, wild land stretching across its length and breadth.

Slice of Life: Finding family on Big Island time

By Karen Wheeler, Slice of Life Mountains. Oceans. Birds that sound like monkeys and trees that sway with fruit. It amazes me that these things have existed all the years I have been puttering up and down County Road 42 in my minivan. Beaches. Luaus. Did I ever think about these things? Of course not. They rarely crossed my mind because I was here and they were there. Far away. Out of reach ...

Easy, tasty pomegranates

Pomegranates have been a part of human history and its culture since the beginning of civilization. But the wild pomegranate did not exist in the Aegean in Neolithic times - it came from eastern Per ...