Top stories from today's Montana This Morning, 8-5-2022

Top stories from Aug. 5, 2022.

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  • Chile sinkhole grows large enough to swallow France's Arc de Triomphe

    Seattle's Space Needle would also comfortably fit in the black pit, as would six Christ the Redeemer statues from Brazil stacked head-to-head, giant arms outstretched. The National Service of Geology and Mining said late on Saturday it is still investigating the gaping hole near the Alcaparrosa mine operated by Canadian company Lundin Mining, about 665 km (413 miles) north of Santiago. Lundin did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

  • Yet more human remains found as drought shrinks Lake Mead reservoir

    Fourth set of skeletal remains, as yet unidentified, discovered at Swim Beach in Nevada as lake hits lowest level in 80 years

  • Cape Cod beach closes after Portuguese man o’ war sightings

    A Cape Cod beach closed Saturday afternoon after a “number” of Portuguese man o’wars washed ashore.

  • More human remains discovered as drought dries Lake Mead

    More human remains have been found at drought-stricken Lake Mead National Recreation Area east of Las Vegas, authorities said Sunday. It’s the fourth time since May that remains have been uncovered as Western drought forces the shoreline to retreat at the shrinking Colorado River reservoir behind the Hoover Dam. National Park Service officials said rangers were called to the reservoir between Nevada and Arizona around 11 a.m. Saturday after skeletal remains were discovered at Swim Beach.

  • 2.3 magnitude earthquake jostles New Hampshire communities

    The United States Geological Survey reported a 2.3 magnitude earthquake around 8:05 p.m. in Deering.

  • US gets first Winter Storm Warning of the season

    While much of the United States is kicking off this weekend with heavy rain, extreme heat and even tornadoes, one area will experience the country's first winter storm warning of the season. Early Friday morning, the National Weather Service in Fairbanks, Alaska, issued a winter storm warning in the Brooks Range and a portion of the Alaskan North Slope. This is the first winter storm warning to be issued anywhere in the United States this snow season, which officially began on July 1. The signif

  • A sacred area for native Hawaiians is filling up with trash. Crews are 'fighting the onslaught.'

    With an estimated 115,000 pounds of debris accumulating on the reefs of Papahānaumokuākea, crews struggle against a pileup that keeps building.

  • Tracking the tropics: Tropical wave to move across Atlantic

    It has been more than a month since the last tropical storm, Colin.

  • Several wildfires burning across eastern Washington, scorching thousands of acres

    Several wildfires are burning across eastern Washington, scorching about 45,000 acres. Fire officials said they have made some progress in getting the Vantage Highway Fire under control, but said there are still a lot of unburned areas that could further fuel the fire. The Vantage Highway Fire flared up Monday and has burned at least 30,000 acres.

  • Air powered arrow rifles legalized for hunting in Oklahoma

    Deer hunters will have the option of another weapon this fall as air powered arrow rifles have been legalized for hunting in Oklahoma.

  • A NASA-Backed Study Will Test Ammonia as a Carbon-Free Alternative to Jet Fuel

    The research team will work with a modified Boeing 737 aircraft to test new ammonia-fueled jet engines.

  • Return of 'the boss': El Jefe, a jaguar that roamed Arizona, has turned up alive in Mexico

    Wildlife biologists confirmed that the jaguar captured by a Sonoran trail camera is El Jefe, the same cat that once roamed Arizona's mountains.

  • In red California, a deadly fire ignites political rage at liberal government

    As crews battle the deadly McKinney fire, some residents blame the state and federal governments for failing to properly manage local forests.

  • Record floods strand 1K people in Death Valley National Park

    Record rainfall Friday trigged flash floods at Death Valley National Park that swept away cars, closed all roads and stranded hundreds of visitors and workers. There were no immediate reports of injuries but roughly 60 vehicles were buried in mud and debris and about 500 visitors and 500 park workers were stuck inside the park, officials said. The park near the California-Nevada state line received 1.46 inches (3.71 centimeters) of rain at the Furnace Creek area.

  • Massive flying carp frenzy triggered by researchers

    The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday shared a striking image showing silver carp leaping en masse during a scientific electrofishing operation.

  • Twenty-two pound, 38-inch invasive carp captured in Lake Calumet near Lake Michigan

    Officials pulled an invasive silver carp from the waters of Lake Calumet on the city’s Far South Side Thursday. Anglers began looking for it after someone spotted the invasive species, part of the Asian carp family, in Lake Calumet earlier in the week, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources said in a statement. The silver carp — more than 38 inches long and weighing about 22 pounds — was ...

  • Tribe: California wildfire near Oregon causes fish deaths

    A wildfire burning in a remote area just south of the Oregon border appears to have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Klamath River fish, the Karuk Tribe said Saturday. The tribe said in a statement that the dead fish of all species were found Friday near Happy Camp, California, along the main stem of the Klamath River. Tribal fisheries biologists believe a flash flood caused by heavy rains over the burn area caused a massive debris flow that entered the river at or near Humbug Creek and McKinney Creek, said Craig Tucker, a spokesman for the tribe.

  • Should the woolly mammoth really be brought back from extinction?

    For Ben Novak, it started with a dead sheep. The horned beast’s head had hung on the wall of the museum at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota for as long as he could remember, commemorating the president who was the father of the American conservation movement.

  • Death Valley National Park remains closed after record rainfall

    Flash flooding stranded park visitors and washed out roads after the national park experienced the second-wettest day in its recorded history.

  • Floods strand 1,000 in California's Death Valley

    STORY: About 60 cars belonging to park visitors and staff were buried under several feet of debris at the Inn at Death Valley, an historic luxury hotel near the park headquarters in Furnace Creek, the site of a spring-fed oasis near the Nevada border, the park said in a statement.Floodwaters also pushed trash dumpsters into parked cars, shoved vehicles into each other, and swamped many facilities, some hotel rooms and business offices, it said.No injuries were reported. But about 500 visitors and 500 park staff were temporarily unable to leave the park because all roads into and out of Death Valley were closed, according to the statement. After work by emergency crews, authorities escorted the cars out of the area.Authorities are conducting aerial searches for stranded motorists but said they have not received reports of stranded cars, Death Valley National Park wrote on its Facebook page.They expect to reopen a particularly damaged area of Highway 190 by Tuesday (August 9).The flooding was unleashed by a torrential shower that dumped 1.46 inches of rain at Furnace Creek, nearly matching the previous daily record there of 1.47 inches measured from a downpour in 1988, park spokesperson Amy Wines said.