Tag: Drones

Hard to find elk would be easier to locate with drones. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Odd fellows: Hunters, animal rights groups call for ban on using drones for hunting

Paul Bedard · May 1, 2014 4:00 am

The drone war in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen has been going on for years, though the number of strikes has declined lately.ÃÂ (AP Photo)

The drone war’s secrets and lies

Steve Chapman · May 1, 2014 4:00 am

Senators drop demand for drone death tallies

National Security

Senators drop demand for drone death tallies

Bradley Klapper · April 29, 2014 7:50 pm

Santa Fe, New Mexico homeowner Hal Wingo, left, watches as Brian Tercero, of Keller Williams Realty flies his DJI Phantom drone as he takes video of the garden on April 18, 2014, in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/The Santa Fe New Mexican, Clyde Mueller)

Santa Fe real estate agent takes to using drone

Washington Examiner · April 28, 2014 12:57 am

FILE - In this May 14, 2013 file photo, one of several small drones designed for use by law enforcement and first responders is shown at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D. Michael Huerta, the Federal Aviation Administration administrator, flew to Grand Forks on April 21, 2014 to announce his agency had granted North Dakota a two-year certificate to begin flying a small drone. The announcement made North Dakota the first of six test sites that can begin flying missions. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Dan Gunderson, File)

For North Dakota, drones a possible growth market

Henry Jackson · April 27, 2014 4:49 pm

This undated photo provided by the University of North Florida Office of Research shows a surface shot taken by a drone of some of the remnants of stone at the Blue J village in northwestern New Mexico. Researchers outfitted a customized drone with a heat-sensing camera to unearth what they believe are ceremonial pits and other features at the site of an ancient village in New Mexico. (AP Photo/ by John Kantner)

Drones unearth more details about Chaco culture

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · April 22, 2014 3:45 pm

People gather near a destroyed car that was carrying militants in the Sawmaa area of al-Bayda province, Yemen, Saturday, April 19, 2014. A Yemeni military official says an American drone strike has killed nine suspected al-Qaida militants and inadvertently killed and wounded some civilians. (AP Photo/Nasir al-Sanna'a)

National Security

Yemen: Airstrike targets al-Qaida training camps

Ahmed AlHaj · April 20, 2014 6:02 pm

In this photo taken on April 8, 2014, Tim Miller, left, Texas EquuSearch founder, and volunteer Gene Robinson, who builds the group's drones, checks out the wiring of a drone they have used for searches in Santa Fe, Texas. The group relies mostly on horseback and all-terrain vehicles to search rough terrain. But it also employs 4-pound aerial drones to survey the ground with digital cameras. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)ÃÂ

Harmless drones get federal flak

Steve Chapman · April 13, 2014 4:00 am

FILE - In this file photo provided on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 by the South Korea Defense Ministry, an unmanned drone which was found last week in Paju, a South Korean city near the land border with North Korea. South Korean experts say two small drones believed to have been flown across the border by the North amid rising military tensions were crude and decidedly low-tech - with cameras available on the Internet for hundreds of dollars - but underscore a potential new threat that must be taken seriously. (AP Photo/South Korea Defense Ministry, File)

National Security

Suspected North Korean drones crude, reflect new threat

HyungJin Kim · April 4, 2014 10:30 am

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against Obama administration over drone strikes

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against Obama administration over drone strikes

Washington Examiner · April 4, 2014 4:00 am

In this Monday, March 31, 2014 photo released by the South Korea Defense Ministry Wednesday, April 2, 2014, an unmanned drone lies on the ground damaged on Baengnyeong Island, South Korea, near the West Sea border with North Korea when the two Koreas fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters. South Korea suspects that the drone that crashed on the frontline South Korean island was flown by rival North Korea, an official said Wednesday. (AP Photo/South Korea Defense Ministry)

South Korea suspects 2 crashed drones from North Korea

HyungJin Kim · April 2, 2014 9:22 am

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Enrollment push

Washington Examiner · March 25, 2014 12:00 am