Blasting will take place over the next two weeks as part of the Lone Pine development construction, according to a press release from the City of The Dalles. The blasting will help remove rock outcroppings taht the contractor is not able to excavate with heavy equipment of site preparation prior to construction.
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Rocks, and rolling slowdown, will echo at least three more times on Interstate 84 this month.
A series of rock blasts along Interstate 84 west of Hood River will occasionally delay fall travelers.
Interstate 84 will see rolling slowdowns and delays for rock blasting necessary to build the latest segment of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail in a series of as many as seven closures that began Wednesday near milepost 53.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A blast that killed one man near U.S. Highway 26 between Portland and Mount Hood is believed to have been caused by a mixture that is used to make exploding targets for firearms practice, authorities said Friday.
WEST, Texas (AP) — Rescue workers searched the smoldering ruins of a fertilizer plant Thursday for survivors of a monstrous explosion that leveled homes and businesses in every direction across the Texas prairie. As many as 15 people were feared dead and more than 160 others injured.
Reports of arrest were wrong BOSTON (AP) — The painstaking work to identify a bombing suspect from reams of Boston Marathon footage yielded a possible breakthrough as investigators focused on a man seen dropping off a bag, and then walking away from the site of the second of two deadly explosions.
BOSTON (AP) — A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Wednesday in a breakthrough that came less than 48 hours after the deadly attack, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said Wednesday. The official spoke shortly after several media outlets reported that a suspect had been identified from surveillance video taken at a Lord & Taylor store between the sites of the two bomb blasts, which killed three people and wounded more than 170.
As stalwart runners from around the world crossed the finish line at the Boston Marathon on April 15, the first bomb went off, according to national news reports, at 2:50 p.m. EST with a second blast following just 13 seconds later.
