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As warmer weather brings more traffic to Elk Island National Park, visitors this spring expecting to see bison might find themselves seeing something else — black bears. Staff say many visitors have no idea black bears are in the park.“They didn’t even know that there were bears here and so they didn’t know to carry bear spray. They didn’t know to make noise,” explained lead ecologist Ramona Maraj.She said recent research indicates there’s now around 40 black bears in the park, a population that really started growing around 2016.“It’s part of a North America wide range expansion that’s happening of…

St Kilda coach Ross Lyon has slammed the AFL’s “compromised draft”, joining his president in lashing the league for going “weak” on player movement changes.The AFL is pushing ahead with moves that will affect father-son prospects and all academy (northern and next generation) selections, despite strong objections from several clubs.But Lyon believes the AFL’s hasn’t gone far enough in overhauling the draft, which blew out to a first round last year of 25 picks instead of what should be 18.The Saints, led by president Andrew Bassat, have been vocal about wanting change, targeting the Queensland teams for their access to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Los Angeles’ police chief is warning the city is not prepared to secure the 2028 Olympics, citing staffing shortages and a lack of dedicated funding.The warning comes amid heightened security concerns surrounding large-scale public events across the country.Speaking during a City Council Budget and Finance Committee meeting Wednesday, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said the department lacks dedicated funding beyond a shared security pool with other agencies, the New York Post reported.”LA28 confirms that they have zero police or other safety budgets,” McDonnell said. “While they do have a security budget, it doesn’t…

The directive proposed several cost-saving measures including restrictions on salaries and allowances for unfilled vacancies, a 10 per cent reduction on services, supplies and assets, and a 20 per cent cut on budgets for statutory bodies and companies limited by guarantees.Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil confirmed the directive, adding that there were no plans by the government to re-submit its 2026 budget to parliament for now.”This is … in line with the government’s intention to streamline programmes and their implementation, as Malaysia faces challenges arising from the global supply crisis,” Fahmi, who is also government spokesperson, told a regular press briefing.Fahmi…

United States prosecutors have brought charges against Mexico’s Sinaloa state Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine current and former officials, accusing them of links to the Sinaloa drug cartel in a move that could strain relations between the two countries.An indictment unsealed on Wednesday in New York alleges that Rocha Moya, 76, and nine others worked with cartel leaders to move large quantities of narcotics into the US in exchange for political support and bribes.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listProsecutors say that support extended to Rocha Moya’s 2021 election campaign, when members of the cartel’s “Chapitos” faction allegedly…

Washington — The House on Wednesday adopted a Senate-approved budget plan, the first step in a strategy that would allow Republicans to fund federal immigration agencies through the rest of President Trump’s term without the help of Democrats.Senate Republicans unveiled and adopted the budget blueprint last week. Republicans are trying to meet Mr. Trump’s June deadline to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, and end the funding lapse that has shut down the Department of Homeland Security since February.The resolution cleared the House in a 215 to 211 vote. It directs the committees that oversee ICE and Border Patrol…

Close-up of logo for Samsung on research building in the Silicon Valley, Mountain View, California, October 28, 2018.Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesSamsung Electronics reported an over eightfold increase in first-quarter operating profits on Thursday, hitting a new record and beating analysts’ estimates on the explosive growth of its chip business. Here are Samsung’s first-quarter results compared with LSEG SmartEstimate, which is weighted toward forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate:Revenue: 133.9 trillion Korean won ($89.96 billion) vs. 132.69 trillion won expectedOperating profit: 57.2 trillion won vs. 55.28 trillion won expectedThe South Korean technology giant’s quarterly profit climbed…

Dozens of police officers, family members and community members gathered Wednesday to mark 30 years since a Montreal police officer was shot and killed in the line of duty in the city’s West Island. André Lalonde was gunned down on April 29, 1996, after pulling over a driver on Senneville Road for a loud muffler. As he approached the vehicle, the driver pulled a gun and fired three shots. Lalonde was taken to hospital, where he died a few hours later.The suspect was never arrested and the case remains open.A ceremony was held Wednesday at the exact intersection where Lalonde…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A recently elected mayor of a small town in Virginia was arrested Tuesday after allegedly showing up to a train derailment site while intoxicated, according to local reports.Paul Morrison, the 57-year-old mayor of Rich Creek, was taken into custody on a charge of public intoxication, WSLS reported, citing jail records. The train derailment occurred in the afternoon near Rich Creek, which sits along the border of West Virginia and Virginia, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) said.The agency added that portions of the incident were reported inside West Virginia and that…