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1 day ago | ijpr.org | Julia Simon

VIENNA – Vienna's city hall, with its stone towers and gargoyles, often reminds visitors of another neo-gothic building, says city council member Nina Abrahamczik.  "Children who come with the school classes are like, 'Oh, it looks like Hogwarts,'" she says. But Abrahamczik, who heads the city's climate and environment committee, says this building has something Hogwarts doesn't: solar panels.

1 day ago | ijpr.org | Lauren Frayer

LONDON — Someone set fire to the door of a house British Prime Minister Keir Starmer used to live in, and police say they've arrested a 21-year-old suspect. London's Metropolitan Police say the man was arrested early Tuesday in connection with a series of arson attacks in northern London. He remains in custody. The first fire took place Thursday last week, targeting a vehicle. The second was Sunday, with a fire at the entrance of a property associated with Starmer.

4 days ago | ijpr.org | Sarit Laschinsky |Chris Nichols

California’s wildfire season is now nearly a year-round danger, as was seen by the devastating, fast-moving fires that swept through the Los Angeles area in January. Fueled by the effects of climate change, wildfires across the state are also growing larger and more unpredictable, and impacting the lives of more Californians. Earlier this year Cal Fire — the state’s firefighting agency — released an updated set of fire hazard maps, the first in almost 15 years.

5 days ago | ijpr.org | Jane Vaughan

A structural evaluation by Portland-based engineering firm KPFF found the snow was only a minor contributor to the collapse. Structural engineer Katie Ritenour told the Medford School Board at a meeting on Thursday night that one cause of the collapse was that some major glue-laminated beams, or glulams, failed along the diagonal line where they were glued together, called scarf joints. "When looking at the damaged timber, we also saw a lot of failed scarf joints," she said.

6 days ago | ijpr.org | Conrad Wilson |Bryce Dole |Michelle Wiley

Curry County’s Board of Commissioners meeting Wednesday night caused an uproar over a proposed resolution supporting cooperation with federal immigration officials — a move that would directly contradict Oregon’s decades-old sanctuary law that prohibits using local resources for immigration enforcement. The southwest Oregon county’s three-member governing body considered a non-binding proclamation that states the commissioners’ disagreement with state law.