Superintendent Chow Hok-yin (left) and Chief Superintendent Steve Li with weapons seized last week. Photo: Handout

    Woman, 26, arrested in Hong Kong over military-style drills

    Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested a woman on suspicion of taking part in illegal drills as officers continue operations against a group accused of conducting military‑style combat training aimed at subverting the government. A police spokesman said on Sunday the 26‑year‑old woman was taken into custody on Friday night on suspicion of committing…

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    ‘It has the potential to act as an important component’

    A threatened woodpecker species is now thriving in an unexpected location — a military bombing range. Conservation biologists have successfully turned the Avon Park Air Force Range in Florida into a sanctuary for red-cockaded woodpeckers. Between 1998 and 2016, conservationists translocated 54 red-cockaded woodpeckers from six healthy populations to Avon Park. Spanning 106,000 acres, the…

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