A Senate committee searching for ways to improve Florida’s shaky property insurance situation and lower the state’s risk recommended borrowing money from the state retirement system to obtain some short-term relief. The proposal debated in the Senate Banking and Insurance …
As the drought in the Southwest worsens, the wildfire season in Arizona grows longer, burning more acreage and threatening private property in forested areas. “The Arizona State Forestry Division estimates more than 4,000 homes, businesses, and other structures were threatened …
As North Dakota’s Red River crept within view of their backyard this past week, Denette and Billy Narum had an extra incentive to pray their sandbags held. Like most people in the path of potential floods, they have no flood …
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour surveyed tornado damage in Simpson County yesterday. Nearly 30 people were injured and dozens of homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed Thursday when a twister ripped through the town of Magee in Simpson County in …
Just as the Red River began retreating from Fargo, N.D.’s hastily fortified levees, the city’s tired residents stared down a winter storm March 30 that is expected to bring than a foot of snow and wind-whipped waves that could worsen …
The failure of a century old earthen canal in northern Nevada that sent flood waters into hundreds of homes on a frigid night in January 2008 was only the beginning of a nightmare for a rural irrigation district. The flood …
By James MacPherson and Carson Walker The bloated Red River briefly breached a dike in Fargo, N.D. early on March 29, pouring water into a school campus and the mayor called it a “wakeup call” for a city that needs …
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has Senate Bill 5417, an act relating to flood insurance coverage. According to the law, “every insurer issuing a homeowner, condominium unit owner, residential tenant and residential fire insurance policy that does not cover damage caused …
The National Weather Service says the Red River reached record stage in Fargo, N.D., overnight and one of the levees was breeched. The river had risen to 40.18 feet early on March 27, breaking a 112-year-old record on its way …
Flight data point to possible flight crew errors rather than ice accumulation as a key factor in last month’s plane crash near Buffalo, New York, that killed 50 people, aviation safety experts said. The National Transportation Safety Board said information …
