John Hawks

While the storm shouldn’t be as severe as last week, there is a concern of high winds.

St. Johnsbury’s Route 2 closed east of Severance Hill Road after last week's storms

Miracle Mile has been the site of traffic delays and construction this summer. Crews will work to finish the work by fall.

Police are looking for a truck driver who left the animal in a dumpster earlier this month. The animal later died despite lifesaving efforts.

The ShackletonThomas Furniture and Pottery store has endured a lot over the past year, suffering from Vermont’s catastrophic floods last summer and most recently a fire on the third floor.

Both the town and village of Woodstock passed ordinances in May to cap the number of short-term rentals allowed. Voters will decide if they want the changes to stay.

Rushing water destroyed large sections of Red Village Road and some of the surrounding structures. Floodwaters carried cars and smaller homes downstream, leaving some to be rescued.

After the Northeast Kingdom saw devastation from recent rains, community members are starting to rebuild, the best they can.

Abstract Explorations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising Star cave system have yielded some of the earliest evidence of a mortuary practice in hominins.

The evolutionary diversity across the genus Homo encompasses variation in brain size and overall brain shape. Homo naledi, from the Rising Star cave system of South Africa, is near the extreme of small brain size within Homo but is easily recognized as Homo in other aspects of endocast morphology. Previous work on the endocast of H. naledi has focused on cranial fossils from the Dinaledi Chamber. Here we add evidence of the endocast morphology of Homo naledi with the LES1 cranium from the Lesedi Chamber. This is the most complete representation of endocranial morphology yet known for H. naledi and confirms the anatomical form from more fragmentary material from the Dinaledi Chamber. Global endocast measurements show a posteriorly wide shape in H. naledi relative to endocranial volume. Qualitative description and metric comparisons show that LES1 and the DH3 endocast have derived morphology relative to chimpanzees and australopiths of the posterolateral frontal lobe and posterior occipital/parietal region. These traits are shared with Homo sapiens and endocasts of later Homo erectus and Neandertals. The orbital cap morphology may reflect a common ancestry of H. naledi with these groups, or parallelism between this smaller-brained lineage and species with larger brain sizes.