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Balboa Island trying to outsmart a rising sea

Balboa Island trying to outsmart a rising sea

As people stroll Balboa Island's picturesque waterfront, some wonder how much one of those cozy cottages costs. City officials think about another price tag: how much it will take to defend those homes against rising sea levels. [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Balboa Island trying to outsmart a rising sea

Balboa Island trying to outsmart a rising sea

As people stroll Balboa Island's picturesque waterfront, some wonder how much one of those cozy cottages costs. City officials think about another price tag: how much it will take to defend those homes against rising sea levels. [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Live on A Deserted Island? Movie review – bare essentials

Live on A Deserted Island? Movie review – bare essentials

No…. its not some porn guys!! Its a 1991 classic movie that I had watched a few times when I was younger, and last night I pulled out the VHS tape at the parent’s house (yup, I know, OLD SCHOOL!) and watched it. Still as grea [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Asylum-seekers target Christmas Island

Asylum-seekers target Christmas Island

In news that is sure to add to the government's headaches over asylum-seekers, the strife-torn and overcrowded detention centre is now being has been targeted directly by people-smugglers. In the past three years, the proportion of su [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Vancouver Island eagle poachers sentenced to jail time, fine, and a ban

Vancouver Island eagle poachers sentenced to jail time, fine...

Two eagle poachers will be serving their weekends in jail, must pay a fine, and are banned from possessing bird parts for three years, a judge decided at a sentencing hearing at the Duncan courthouse last week. In April, provincial c [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Vancouver Island Mountain Centre opens with a bang

Vancouver Island Mountain Centre opens with a bang

After years of planning and construction through snowy weather, which included last season’s record breaking snowfall, the new non-profit Vancouver Island Mountain Centre (VIMC) at Mount Washington is set to open its doors on Dec. 8 [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Family reluctantly gives up its hold on Santa Rosa Island

Reporting from Santa Rosa Island, Calif.— For the family that once owned Santa Rosa Island, it was part Zane Grey, part "Robinson Crusoe." Generations of Vail cousins would arrive from the mainland and take refuge for m [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Islands in the sun

Islands in the sun

Fancy a trip to the Cumberland Islands? Somehow Captain Cook's original name for this chain of 74 tropical islands doesn't have the evocative ring of "the Whitsundays". The region has become a byword for stylish res [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Sydney's Treasure Island

Sydney's Treasure Island

Sydney Harbour has kept few secrets but Cockatoo Island is one of them. The largest of Sydney's islands stands at the confluence of the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers, just 20 minutes' ferry ride from Circular Quay. Yet for most [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Dubai's island builder to build artificial reefs

Dubai's island builder to build artificial reefs

United Arab Emirates (AP) - Nakheel, the Dubai property developer behind the emirate's man-made islands, laid out plans on Wednesday to build a string of artificial reefs off the city-state's coast in a bid to attract more aquatic [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

New Christmas Island radar failed to detect stricken asylum ...

Border Protection Command yesterday confirmed the failure as the island received another boat carrying 116 asylum-seekers and five crew -- the largest arrival since Julia Gillard's Malaysia Solution was killed off by the High Court in [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Belle Island sale finally goes through

A new owner has bought part of the Belle Island property in Pigeon Forge and is planning an attraction whose centerpiece will be a 200-foot skywheel. On Monday, LeConte Village LLC paid $10 million for the retail portion of Belle Island, [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Korean island is a new natural wonder

Korean island is a new natural wonder

It's official, well almost; the world has seven new natural wonders. Zurich-based New7Wonders Foundation was established in 2001 to help protect the world's natural and human-built heritage. Its search for the world's new natu [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Residents rescued from fire in Blue Island

Unlike some of her neighbors, Toyya Robinson didn’t have to be rescued Friday morning from the rooftop of her burning apartment building in Blue Island. But that doesn’t mean that escaping the blaze wasn’t a harrowing ex [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

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