An amber hunter named Sue Hendrickson, working with the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a company that collects and prepares fossils, had wandered off to explore a bluff as her crew changed a flat tire, and came back with a handful of dinosaur.
Jeremy Phillips' wife Fiona was sitting on the beach near Maunganui Bluff in the north of the country when her husband slipped off his boogie board and disappeared into the sea.
His successor will face the dilemma of whether to shut off the Carlsbad irrigators to make sure that enough water can flow down to the Red Bluff reservoir in Texas.