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CLOVIS, California (KGPE) – Clovis Police Department’s drone program is taking off.  Like many smaller law enforcement agencies without helicopters, they rely on technology to be their eyes from above. “It’s become one of those tools we can’t live without now,” said Lt. Jim Munro. The Clovis Police drone program …

Jan 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. government is planning to permanently halt its civilian drone program due to the devices being made at least partly in China, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The Interior Department is considering halting about 1,000 drones after deciding that the risk of the drones …

Please enable Javascript to watch this video SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit in San Diego is offering a new program that will launch high school students’ careers in commercial drone aviation. The Good Neighbor Project offers hands-on education, employment opportunities and other activities to improve the quality of life for …

On the ground floor of YV-Tech, students in the school’s electrical classroom were wiring four-way light switches, doorbells and power breakers from scratch Thursday. Upstairs, four students in the drones and automation classroom gathered gear and walked outside to a patch of asphalt. They got clearance from the Yakima airport …

A North Carolina hospital is pioneering the use of drones to speed up the delivery of critical medical samples across WakeMed Hospital’s campus. The first-of-its-kind delivery program in the U.S. — a partnership with UPS — carries a small cooler of medical samples to a lab three quarters of a …

Seven tech startups have been chosen as winners for the 12th wave of the Qatar Business Incubation Center’s (QBIC) LeanStartup program which culminated here yesterday. After 10 weeks of training under the program and a series of business pitches in front of a panel of judges, the QBIC awarded QR100,000 …

BARYULGIL Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC), in partnership with Virtus Heritage, have identified up to 30 previously unknown burial sites in and around the historical Baryulgil Cemetery in Northern NSW near Grafton. The newly discovered sites include an area that reflects traditional, pre-European settlement burial practices. With Aboriginal families living …

Shenzhen has moved a step forward in regulating the booming industry for unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, as the southern city in Guangdong province launched a trial traffic management program on Monday. The trial program aims to regulate flight activities of civilian UAVs, guide users in flying drones legally and …