Take me to your litter. In Texas, that will be mostly cigarette butts. We – well, you, not me – pitched out nearly 400 million cigarette butts in 2009, which made up 43 percent of Texas highway litter last year. No wonder we have such high pollution rates, and all

Firefighters extinguished a small fire on Albany Hill on Friday afternoon without too much trouble, authorities said. The fire started shortly before 3 p.m. in the grass along a dirt access road on the north side of the hill, said Lt. Jeff Keary of the Albany Fire Department.

Firefighters evacuated Steve and Dave's bar in Old Town Friday afternoon after a smoldering cigarette interrupted happy hour. Around 5:15 p.m. Friday, the Eureka Fire Department dispatched several engines to the bar, after patrons reported smelling smoke while inside.

A cigarette butt is believed to be the cause of the blaze that burned over 588 acres, in-and-along, the Snake River Canyon. According to BLM spokesman Brock Astle, containment was achieved at around 11 last night.

Take me to your litter. In Texas, that will be mostly cigarette butts. We - well, you, not me - pitched out almost 400 million cigarette butts in 2009, which made up 43 percent of Texas highway litter last year. Smokers who litter don't think cigarette butts are a big

Police cited one man and arrested another in connection with a small brush fire that burned in the hills above Farmington Monday night. The fire started around 10 p.m. and charred about an acre and a half before fire crews put it out. Davis County sheriff's deputies responding to the

There has been lots said recently in Chemainus regarding the issue between the baseball association and some careless pet owners. I will keep my opinion to myself on that topic but I will make some noise on a similar issue. It also involves some careless people that don't clean up

Cigarette butts now have a place to go in the River Market area that's not on the sidewalks and streets: In containers mounted on 10 poles up and down the street. The city and Keep Little Rock Beautiful installed the receptacles, which will be placed in other areas downtown too,

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A smouldering cigarette butt left unattended is the suspected cause of a house fire in south Nanaimo Friday afternoon. The fire badly damaged the deck of a two-storey house in the 600 block of Kennedy Street before moving into the attic of the house and causing extensive damage.