Taipei: A water level meter was installed Sunday at the barrier lake on the Wanli River in Hualien County, allowing authorities to receive water-level data every 10 minutes to improve monitoring and emergency response, the Forestry and Nature Conserva…
Taipei: More than 1,000 stray dogs are estimated to be roaming around Renyitan Reservoir in Chiayi County, where local authorities say pet abandonment has become a persistent problem. Lin Pei-ju, director of the Chiayi County Livestock Disease Control…
Taipei: Autopsies on four hikers killed in a rockfall on a Taichung hiking trail confirmed Sunday that they died of traumatic shock caused by falling rocks, prosecutors said. The Taichung District Prosecutors Office stated that prosecutors and forensi…
Taipei: Three people have died and one remains missing after days of rain brought by a weather front and southwesterly winds, the Central Emergency Operation Center (CEOC) said Saturday. The fatalities occurred in Kaohsiung’s Shanlin District, and Hsi…
Taipei: Extremely heavy rain that has pounded the country over the past week has caused agricultural losses totaling more than NT$95 million (US$2.98 million) as of Saturday morning, with most of the losses concentrated in southern Taiwan, according t…
Taipei: The Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency’s (FANCA) Hualien Branch announced on Saturday that seven communities within the proximity of the newly formed barrier lake upstream of the Wanli River have been preemptively evacuated to prevent a d…
