The Alaska Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a lawsuit that claims state policy on fossil fuels is harming the constitutional right of young Alaskans to a safe climate. Sixteen Alaska youths in 2017 sued the state, claiming …
Health officials say one more Oregonian has a vaping-related severe lung illness, raising Oregon’s toll to nine victims, two of whom have died. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Gov. Kate Brown on Oct. 4 ordered a six-month ban on sales of all …
Irvine, Calif. -based Burnham Benefits has named Margie Spear vice president. Spear has 14 years of industry experience. She previously worked in the benefits department at SeaTech Insurance Agency Inc./Pacific Unified Insurance. Spear’s main responsibilities as will be to establish …
Super Typhoon Hagabis has been a category 5 for much of the first half of this week, but fortunately is forecast to weaken to a category 3 typhoon when it makes landfall in Japan on Saturday morning, Oct. 12, said …
The Travelers Companies has joined the Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE), organizations working to advance research and public information about automated vehicle and driver assistance technologies. …
With the national rate of Americans lacking health insurance on the rise again, the personal finance website WalletHub released a report on uninsured rates by city and by state. The national uninsured rate rose in 2018 to 8.5% from 7.9% …
When David Schaecter was a child in Slovakia in the 1930s, he counted more than 100 people in his extended family. By the end of World War II, he alone survived. The rest had been killed in Nazi concentration camps …
Two years into the #MeToo movement, an unprecedented number of American workers are required to receive mandatory sexual harassment training, the result of a handful of new state regulations aimed at creating safer workplaces. Now one in five workers in …
A mixture of salt buildup and light rain has made power poles combustible, causing thousands to lose power in several Virginia cities. News outlets report multiple power poles caught fire Tuesday causing outages for about 30,000 Dominion Energy customers, mainly …
A utility worker has been hospitalized after receiving an electric shock of nearly 7,500 volts while working at a Massachusetts substation. Sandwich Fire Chief John J. Burke said Tuesday the Eversource worker suffered both entry and exit wounds from the …
