Salt Lake County, Utah’s levee systems are in unacceptable shape, according to a review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Officials with the Corps’ Sacramento District announced Friday that they found several problems in levees along the 12-mile Surplus …
Thousands of people were without power as of Sunday evening in Washington state following Saturday’s wind storm. The storm knocked out power to about 150,000 people in the Puget Sound region. About 10,000 were still without power on Sunday in …
The insurance company for the city of Billings has agreed to settle a lawsuit stemming from the death of a 41-year-old man at Rose Park pool. The Billings Gazette reported that the agreement approved on Tuesday by District Judge Russell …
NSM Insurance Group has acquired Executive Liability Managers Insurance Brokers in California. ELM is a 25-year-old professional liability wholesale insurance brokerage with three offices in California. The acquisition diversifies NSM’s national market for admitted and non-admitted business, according to a …
The mother of a 20-year-old Minnesota man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Lander, Wyo.-based National Outdoor Leadership School. The lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Brenner, of Minnetonka, Minn., in federal court accuses the school of negligence in the …
A Las Vegas homeowners association agreed to pay $65,000 to a family after refusing to allow them to park an ambulance they used for their disabled son in the driveway, federal officials said Wednesday. The HOA admits no wrongdoing in …
Montana and federal officials say they’ll seek compensation from Exxon Mobil Corp. for natural resource damages caused by a crude oil spill into the Yellowstone River. Thursday’s announcement comes two years after an Exxon pipeline near Laurel broke during flooding …
A judge has refused to order an immediate halt to production of the internationally popular hot sauce Sriracha at a Southern California factory that local residents say is stinking up their neighborhoods with pepper and garlic fumes. In rejecting the …
An FBI investigation shows that state Sen. Ronald Calderon accepted bribes from a hospital executive in Southern California who ran an alleged workers’ compensation scheme, the Al Jazeera America news outlet is reporting. Calderon, D-Montebello, who chairs the Senate Insurance …
New information shows sediment buildup in the White River is increasing the flood danger faced by the city of Pacific, Wash. The King County Flood Control District, in cooperation with Pacific and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, plans to …
