The picture looks almost like it came from a movie: a 387-foot superyacht, said to be worth $300 million, floating calmly in the water off Southeast Alaska, while a small 21-foot skiff was stuck somewhere between Petersburg and Juneau, running out of fuel and waiting for someone to answer a radio call. The ship that finally showed up wasn’t the biggest one nearby. The Wilderness Legacy, a UnCruise Adventures ship, was a small one. Michael Love, a software developer from New York City, was a passenger who wrote about it on Bluesky. The story quickly spread. Love says that the…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
It didn’t look like much when the Bug Fire first showed up on radar north of Reno on Sunday morning. A spot. A plume. Like this, western Nevada gets it every summer, and it usually has it before noon. By early afternoon, it looked completely different. By evening, the Fred Mountain Fire, which had started on its own about nine miles to the east, had grown from 150 acres to about 1,393 acres in just four hours. It’s not a fire. That’s the shape of the landscape changing. On Sunday, there were three fires going at the same time north…
Above our heads, something subtly amazing occurs every August. There is no need for screens, ticket lines, or announcements. The majority of people sleep thru the show that the sky puts on. The Perseids, also referred to as the “Tears of Saint Lawrence” or estrellas perseidas in Spanish-speaking tradition, are one of those occasions that seem different depending on where you are. They are easy to miss from a rooftop in a city that is illuminated; you might see a faint streak here, another there, and then nothing at all. But find a dark field, drive an hour outside of…
Before the peak of a total solar eclipse, there is a certain kind of silence that falls over a crowd. Not the quiet that you’d find in a library. Something else. That feeling of not believing what you’re seeing, like everyone watching has forgotten how to speak all at once. People from all over the world are drawn to that moment, that silence. On August 12, 2026, millions of people will wait in open spaces across Spain, Iceland, and Greenland with their heads tilted up and cardboard-frame eclipse glasses on. And if the weather is good, they will see something…
In one version of this tale, everything turns out well. In a Barcelona restaurant, Pep Guardiola accepts the Italy position for a little less than his predecessor’s salary, takes out a notepad, and begins sketching formations, and Italian football quietly starts its long-overdue reset. From the technical director’s chair, Paolo Maldini, the mastermind behind it all, observes. That was not the case. According to Maldini, it was excruciatingly close. The 58-year-old former defender discussed his brief, tumultuous tenure as Italy’s technical director in a lengthy interview with Corriere della Sera. He accepted the position because, in his own words, there…
Every clock in the country needs to be changed twice a year. It just doesn’t make sense. People forget to fix the microwave, the dashboard of their car, and the wall clock in the break room until February. This has been a tradition in the United States for decades, and over the last few years, more and more people have been asking their elected officials and others out loud why it is still going on. It looks like the House of Representatives heard them. They passed H.R. 139, the Sunshine Protection Act, earlier this month. This is the law that…
A certain type of journalist develops an unbreakable bond with the organization they cover. They genuinely believed in the location, its audience, its language, and its role in the community, not because they had nowhere else to go. That type of journalist was Oihane Mateos. She worked for the Basque public broadcaster EITB for almost her whole career. When she passed away on August 8, 2026, at the age of 45, the grief that spread thru newsrooms and social media felt more like the loss of a real person than a professional tribute. Mateos was born in 1981 in the…
Carrington missed the first 27 games of the 2026 WNBA season because of a foot injury that she got during Minnesota’s playoff run the previous year. She finally played again on July 30 for the Chicago Sky. Her 17-minute game gave her 9 points. Just what you’d expect from someone who had been watching from the sidelines for too long: quick, calm, and calculated. This event nine days later, however, made her name popular in a way that had nothing to do with her stats. At the United Center on August 8, Carrington fouled Sophie Cunningham in a way that…
By mid-afternoon on August 4, a gray Chevrolet Silverado was heading north thru the desert state of Coahuila, carrying a three-year-old boy and, according to Mexican authorities, a man who had just murdered three people at a Saltillo home. Chad Eberle, the driver, was a 35-year-old reserve officer with the Santa Anna Police Department in central Texas and an Army veteran. According to the majority of official accounts, he was a part-time police officer who worked one weekend per month and was not even paid. He failed to get thru. The Silverado was followed by Mexican detectives to the international…
The news got to Texas quickly, even tho it came from northern Mexico. A man who had been a police officer in at least six Texas towns and was in the army was being held in Saltillo prison on Thursday evening. He was accused of killing three people and leaving the mother of his child in critical condition. The authorities say it all began over a three-year-old boy. Chad Eberle, 35, was caught on Wednesday at the Piedras Negras international bridge, which is right next to Eagle Pass. Investigators in Mexico say he was trying to get back to Texas.…