To combat wildfires, the Texas Legislature recently appropriated $59.8 million for the Texas A&M University System’s George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex to use pilotless Blackhawk helicopters.

A helicopter pilot who died Monday following a crash near Behchokǫ, N.W.T.,̀ had been part of a reforestation project, the Tłı̨chǫ government said in a news release Thursday. "This loss is felt deeply ...