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New Zealand: Landslide Hits Mount Maunganui 3

Six people, including two teenagers, are missing after a major landslide struck a local campground in Mount Maunganui on Thursday, January 22. Police are also seeking information on three others as search and rescue operations continue in a dangerous environment, with authorities describing the incident as a national tragedy and the community rallying to support affected families.

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US: Strong Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Sierra Nevada 3

A strong winter storm hit the Sierra Nevada on Friday, March 1, bringing heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard Warnings were issued for the area, including Lake Tahoe and eastern Nevada. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned that the danger of avalanches was high. Yosemite National Park and many ski resorts in the region announced they were closing at least for the day.

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Court rejects gov't suit over penalties on Isahaya Bay dike

SAGA, Japan - Fishery workers celebrate on Dec. 12, 2014, in front of the Saga District Court in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after the court dismissed the central government's demand for an annulment of a court order for it to pay penalties to fishermen until it opens the floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike in the Ariake Sea.

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Fishermen seek opening of Isahaya Bay dike gates

NAGASAKI, Japan - People associated with the fishing industry hold a protest rally before the building of the Nagasaki prefectural government in Nagasaki City on June 11, 2014, against its opposition to open the floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike.

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Floodgates of Isahaya Bay dike remain closed amid dispute

TOKYO, Japan - The northern floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike remain closed, as seen in this file photo taken in March 2014, amid a court battle among local farmers, fishermen and the central and local governments over whether to open the gates.

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State ordered to pay penalty if Isahaya Bay dike is opened

NAGASAKI, Japan - In front of the court building, farmers and supporters welcome the Nagasaki District Court's ruling on June 4, 2014, ordering the state to start paying a penalty to farmers if it opens the floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike. The ruling put the state in a dilemma as it will have to pay a penalty however it acts over the sluice gates.

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State orderd to pay penalty if Isahaya Bay dike is opened

FUKUOKA, Japan - The photo taken on March 24, 2014, shows the floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture. The Nagasaki District Court ordered the state on June 4, 2014, to start paying a penalty to farmers if it opens the gates.

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Isahaya Bay case

SAGA, Japan -Fishermen celebrate following a press conference in Saga, Saga Prefecture, on April 11, 2014, after the Saga District Court ordered the state to start paying a penalty to fishermen in two months unless it opens the floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike in southwestern Japan in line with a high court ruling that ordered the opening for assessment.

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Isahaya Bay case

NAGASAKI, Japan - Lawyers hold banners at the Nagasaki District Court on Nov. 12, 2013, showing that the court issued an injunction barring the Japanese government from opening the floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike in southwestern Japan.

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Court bars gov't from opening Isahaya Bay dike

NAGASAKI, Japan - Farmers and their lawyers celebrate outside the Nagasaki District Court in Nagasaki Prefecture on Nov. 12, 2013, after the court issued an injunction barring the government from opening the floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike in the prefecture. The injunction was sought by local farmers opposed to the planned opening of two sluice gates for five years to examine damage to the local environment and fishing.

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Court rejects demand for immediate opening of Isahaya Bay dike gates

NAGASAKI, Japan - Hidenori Matsunaga, who led a group of 41 fishermen in Nagasaki and Saga prefectures in a lawsuit filed against the central government, is pictured during their gathering in Nagasaki on June 27, 2011, after the Nagasaki District Court rejected their demand for an immediate opening of two floodgates at the Isahaya Bay dike in the Ariake Sea. The fishermen claimed the shutting of the floodgates affected tidal currents and led to reduced fish catches.

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Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 15, 2010, shows Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture divided by a long dike. The central government has decided to open two of the dike's drainage gates following a Fukuoka High Court order on Dec. 6 in favor of fishermen who claimed that the state project has caused damage to the local environment and their industry.

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Kan decides to open Isahaya Bay gates, not to appeal court decision

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan said at his office on Dec. 15, 2010 that he has decided not to appeal a high court ruling ordering the government to open the two floodgates of the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture for five years, turning around a farm ministry plan to water it down while filing an appeal.

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Isahaya Bay dike to be opened

ISAHAYA, Japan - Photo shows part of Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture divided by a long dike (R) on Dec. 15, 2010. Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the same day that the government has decided to open two of the dike's drainage gates following a Fukuoka High Court order.

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Isahaya Bay dike to be opened

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2010. Kan announced that the government has decided not to appeal against a Fukuoka High Court order to open two drainage gates of the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Fishermen demand the opening of Isahaya Bay dike

TOKYO, Japan - Protestors, mostly from the fishing industry, sit in front of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2010, demanding that the government swiftly open the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture. The Fukuoka High Court ordered the state to open the dike's drainage gates the previous day, in support of the fishermen, acknowledging the closure of the gate has damaged the local fisheries industry.

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Environment disputes over Japan bay

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fishermen line up their boats in Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 10, 2010, staging a ''sea rally'' to urge the government to reopen the gates on the dike (back). Fishermen, farmers and other residents around the bay have been split over whether to reopen the gates on the 7-kilometer-long dike, which the government closed in 1997 for farmland reclamation and disaster prevention.

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Fisheries minister visits Isahaya Bay

ISAHAYA, Japan - Local people mount a rally in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 15, 2010, protesting against a government plan to open gates on a dike that prevents seawater from mixing with freshwater in Isahaya Bay. The demonstrators, holding a banner part of which reads ''Opposition,'' held the rally as fisheries minister Hirotaka Akamatsu visited the site of a controversial reclamation project in the bay.

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Fisheries minister visits Isahaya Bay

UNZEN, Japan - Fisheries minister Hirotaka Akamatsu (C,L) visits the site of a controversial reclamation project at Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture, western Japan, on April 15, 2010. There is local opposition to a government plan to open gates on a dike that prevents seawater from mixing with freshwater in the bay.

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Fishermen on 100 boats protest over Isahaya Bay dike project

ISAHAYA, Japan - Fishermen line up about 100 fishing boats in waters off Isahaya, Nagasakai Prefecture on Jan. 7, 2010, to protest over the government's project to fill the Isahaya Bay dike. The fishermen say the project has damaged the seawater environment in the area and their fishery businesses.

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Fishermen on 100 boats protest over Isahaya Bay dike project

ISAHAYA, Japan - Fishermen line up about 100 fishing boats in waters off Isahaya, Nagasakai Prefecture on Jan. 7, 2010, to protest over the government's project to fill the Isahaya Bay dike. The fishermen say the project has damaged the seawater environment in the area and their fishery businesses.

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Gov't appeals court decision over Isahaya

TOKYO, Japan - People stage a sit-in in front of the farm ministry in Tokyo on July 10 after the Japanese government appealed a district court ruling that ordered the state to open the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture, citing concerns that opening it will expose the area to risks of high tides which would damage farming business on the reclaimed land there. Fishermen claim the government's project to fill the bay has damaged the seawater environment in the area and their fishery businesses.

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Court approves fishermen's plea against project to fill in bay

SAGA, Japan - Plaintiffs celebrate June 27 after the Saga District Court ordered the state to open the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture, ruling in favor of about 2,500 fishermen who claim the government's project to fill in the bay has damaged the seawater environment in the area and their fishery businesses.

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Court approves fishermen's plea against project to fill in bay

SAGA, Japan - The Saga District Court on Friday ordered the state to open the Isahaya Bay dike (in file photo taken in November 2007) in Nagasaki Prefecture, ruling in favor of some 2,500 fishermen who claim the government's project to fill in the bay has damaged the seawater environment in the area and their fishery businesses.

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People mourn mudskippers killed in Isahaya land reclamation

NAGASAKI, Japan - Environmentalists held a ceremony April 14 to mourn for mudskippers and other tideland creatures presumed dead in the state's land reclamation work in Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Court rejects fishermen's plea to stop bay reclamation project

TOKYO, Japan - The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal Sept. 30 by fishermen seeking to halt a controversial state project to reclaim Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture. Local fishermen argued the reclamation will damage the fishing industry. Photo taken July 6, 2005, shows the reclamation project under way in Isahaya Bay.

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High court revokes injunction on Isahaya Bay reclamation project

FUKUOKA, Japan - The Fukuoka High Court revoked a temporary injunction on May 16 on construction work on a controversial land reclamation project in Isahaya Bay, Nagasaki Prefecture. Photo shows lawyer Akio Managi (L) explaining the court ruling to fishermen who claimed the damage to the fishing industry and the land reclamation projects were related.

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(1)Court orders suspension of Isahaya dike construction

SAGA, Japan - Lawyers hold up victory banners Aug. 26 at the Saga District Court, which issued a provisional order to suspend a government-backed construction of an inner dike in the Isahaya Bay reclamation project in Nagasaki Prefecture. Fishermen requested the suspension, saying the dike was harming the fishing industry.

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(2)Court orders suspension of Isahaya dike construction

SAGA, Japan - Fishermen and supporters rejoice Aug. 26 after the Saga District Court ordered a suspension of the government-backed construction of an inner dike in the Isahaya Bay reclamation project in Nagasaki Prefecture. Fishermen requested the suspension, saying the dike was harming the fishing industry.

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(3)Court orders suspension of Isahaya dike construction

SAGA, Japan - Fishermen and citizens listen to reports that the Saga District Court ordered Aug. 26 a suspension of the government-backed construction of an inner dike in the Isahaya Bay reclamation project in Nagasaki Prefecture. Fishermen requested the suspension, saying the dike was harming the fishing industry.

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Protesters block gates in bid to stop Isahaya Bay project

ISAHAYA, Japan - Fishermen block gates at a dike construction site for a land reclamation project in Isahaya Bay, southwestern Japan, on July 29. They claim that the project has destroyed the ecosystem in the Ariake Sea, where Isahaya Bay is located, and resulted in poor harvests of ''nori'' seaweed.

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200 protesters conduct sit-in over Isahaya Bay project

KUMAMOTO, Japan - About 200 members of the Ariake Sea fisheries cooperative association stage a sit-in in front of the Kyushu Agricultural Administration Office in Kumamoto on July 10 to protest the construction of a dike as part of a land reclamation project in Isahaya Bay, southwestern Japan.

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Fukuoka fisheries group protests Isahaya Bay project

TOKYO, Japan - About 260 members of a Fukuoka fisheries cooperative association stage a demonstration around the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 1 to protest the ministry's rejection of their request to cancel a land reclamation project in Isahaya Bay, southwestern Japan.

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Gov't opens Isahaya lock gates for 2-month probe

ISAHAYA, Japan - The farm ministry opens Isahaya Bay's lock gates in Nagasaki Prefecture on April 24 as part of its probe, to last about two months, into the cause of poor seaweed harvests in the area. Seawater was allowed into the freshwater reservoir (foreground) for the first time in five years since the gates were closed April 14, 1997.

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Work on Isahaya project restarts amid protest

NAGASAKI, Japan - Local fishermen gather in front of the main gate to a planned reclamation site in Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture on Jan. 9 to block officials from the farm ministry's Kyushu Regional Agricultural Administration Office and construction workers from entering the site. They entered the site through another gate and resumed the reclamation work, which was scheduled to resume the previous day.

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Fishermen's protest scuttles Isahaya reclamation restart

ISAHAYA, Japan - A group of fishermen blockad the entrance to the reclamation site of Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture on Jan. 8, forcing the farm ministry and construction workers to abandon their attempt to restart work for the day. The producers of ''nori'' seaweed in the Ariake Sea prevented the trucks carrying workers hired by the ministry from entering the 700-hectare site of reclaimed land.

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Fishermen's protest blocks Isahaya reclamation project

NAGASAKI, Japan - Some 30 fishermen from Fukuoka, Nagasaki and Kumamoto prefectures surround a dump truck Jan. 8 at the floodgate in the town of Takai, Nagasaki Prefecture. They were protesting against a government attempt to resume a land reclamation project in Isahaya Bay, suspended since late February last year.

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Farm minister noncommittal on resuming Isahaya reclamation

ISAHAYA, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe (L), along with Nagasaki Gov. Genjiro Kaneko (R), on May 26 inspects the site in Isahaya Bay, Nagasaki Prefecture, where reclamation work has been suspended since late February on fishermen's protests. After the inspection, the farm minister declined to respond a demand by local officials on the resumption of the controversial land reclamation project.

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Symposium held to demand halt to Isahaya Bay reclamation

ISAHAYA, Japan - A citizens' group holds a symposium in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 14 to muster support for their demand for an immediate halt to land reclamation work in Isahaya Bay in southwestern Japan. At the symposium, held to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the separation of the bay from the Ariake Sea, the group adopted a declaration urging the immediate opening of the dike's lock gates to restore the bay's wetland to its natural condition.

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Opponents of opening Isahaya floodgates stage protest

ISAHAYA, Japan - Some 700 people, living near Isahaya Bay on the western part of the Ariake Sea in southwestern Japan, stage protest rallies March 28 over the government's decision to suspend a land reclamation project in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, and open the floodgates in a dike holding back tons of seawater. The government made the decision in part from strong requests from ''nori'' seaweed farmers working in the Ariake Sea.

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Gov't decides to open Isahaya Bay gates

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshio Yatsu speaks to journalists March 27 after receiving a report from an advisory panel recommending the ministry open the watergates at the Isahaya Bay land reclamation site in Kyushu. Yatsu said the ministry decided to open the gates, but did not give any specific date.

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Isahaya Bay watergates to be opened

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken March 22 shows the watergates at the Isahaya Bay land reclamation site in Kyushu that were opened for survey purposes. The farm ministry said March 27 it decided to open the gates, effectively putting on hold a project that local fishermen blame for destroying the seaweed industry.

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Residents demand completion of Isahaya reclamation project

NAGASAKI, Japan - Some 600 residents of the town of Takaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, stage a rally on March 24 to demand the completion of a state-run reclamation project in Isahaya Bay in the prefecture and oppose the opening of a dike in the bay. At a meeting held in the town, the residents chanted, ''Don't open the drainage gate.'' Local seaweed farmers, whose livelihoods have taken a hammering from the poor seaweed harvest, have been demanding the opening of the gates to revive the local ecological system.

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Gov't, Nagasaki at odds on halting Isahaya reclamation work

TOKYO, Japan - Genjiro Kaneko (L), governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, hands a document carrying a resolution adopted by the Nagasaki prefectural assembly to Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshio Yatsu on March 7 in Tokyo. Kaneko is opposed to a proposal to temporarily halt a reclamation project and open a dike in Isahaya Bay in the prefecture. On March 6, Yatsu expressed willingness to suspend the reclamation work to analyze the quality of water in the 1,710-hectare reservoir behind the dike.

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LDP's Koga agrees on halt to Isahaya Bay reclamation project

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Koga (R), secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), poses during a meeting with a group of fishermen from Fukuoka Prefecture at the party headquarters in Tokyo on March 1. Koga said later a controversial state-run land reclamation project in Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture should be halted and that water gates should be reopened to allow investigation of the cause of a poor seaweed crop in the area.

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Fishermen demand halt to Isahaya Bay reclamation project

TOKYO, Japan - Fishermen from Fukuoka Prefecture hand over to Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshio Yatsu at the ministry in Tokyo on March 1 a petition signed by 122,000 people, demanding the government halt a state-run land reclamation project and open water gates in Isahaya Bay. They believe the project and the 1997 closure of the water gates have caused this year's poor seaweed crops.

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Fishermen blockade gates to Isahaya Bay land reclamation site

ISAHAYA, Japan - About 200 fishermen wearing headbands blockade several gates to the Isahaya Bay land reclamation site in Nagasaki Prefecture on Feb. 24 to protest at the state-run project, which they believe is the cause of the season's poor ''nori'' seaweed crop in the Ariake Sea.

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Farm minister inspects Isahaya Bay over poor seaweed crop

NAGASAKI, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshio Yatsu (C) samples seaweed Jan. 29 in the Ariake Sea off Saga Prefecture in his inspection of the Isahaya Bay land reclamation site in Nagasaki Prefecture. He made his visit due to local fishermen's allegations that the project is responsible for this season's poor seaweed crop in the Ariake Sea.

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Minister inspects Isahaya Bay over poor seaweed crop

ISAHAYA, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshio Yatsu (R) on Jan. 29 inspects the Isahaya Bay land reclamation site in Nagasaki Prefecture. Local fishermen claim that the reclamation project is responsible for this season's poor seaweed crop in the Ariake Sea.

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Fishermen rally to demand gov't open Isahaya Bay dikes

ISAHAYA, Japan - Fishing boats gather off Isahaya Bay, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Jan. 28 for a rally to demand the government open dikes at the mouth of the bay closed in 1997 under a land reclamation project they believe responsible for damaged seaweed crops. Some 6,000 fishermen rallied in more than 1,000 boats in the Ariake Sea.