Helicopters dropping explosives on snowy mountain peaks is a thing of the movies, but it is also part of an outdated model of controlling avalanches worldwide.
As the Hanford Vit Plant in southeastern Washington prepares to vitrify 56 million gallons of radioactive waste, the plant gets an assist from a new vessel to help test the process.
It may not mean much of anything for the future of Portland’s Memorial Coliseum, but the 1960-opened glass-encased arena has garnered the city’s first-ever designation as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.