Starting this summer, new and returning levee board members across Louisiana will be going back to school – for three days. A new “levee school” is being developed by professors at LSU with help from the state Department of Natural …
A top hurricane forecaster on April 6 called Al Gore “a gross alarmist” for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming. “He’s one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he’s doing …
North Dakota GOP senators have moved to repudiate a proposal, floated by House Republicans, to allow a $50,000 “party fund” for the state’s workers compensation agency. The House Republican majority leader said he did not expect it to survive. Sen. …
With hurricane season less than two months away and memories of Katrina less than two years old, city leaders are still trying to sort out how they will evacuate residents this year if another storm approaches. Tourism leaders oppose using …
Florida officials have developed a system to rate homes on their ability to withstand wind damage. The rating system — created in response to recent legislation and named the Home Structure Rating System — scores homes on a scale of …
The Live Free or Die state’s days of unrestrained driving could be numbered. New Hampshire would give up its status as the only state without a mandatory seat belt law for adults under a bill approved narrowly Thursday by the …
A Putnam County, New York bar owner has been charged with allowing an off-duty bartender to drink and drive, resulting in a head-on crash that killed her and another woman. Sandra Longchamps, 43, of Southeast, a bar manager at The …
A judge in Kentucky has delayed setting a dollar amount on what more than 400 former fen-phen plaintiffs may receive from the lawyers they sued over their share of a $200 million settlement. Special Judge William Wehr indicated in an …
The combined Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society chapters of Los Angeles, Orange Empire, El Camino and San Gabriel, Calif., will be hosting a golf tournament and dinner on Wednesday May 9, at the Brookside Golf course in Pasadena, Calif. Cost …
An Army Corps of Engineers policy is threatening trees and shrubs on 1,600 miles of Calif., Central Valley levees. The policy requires levees to be cleared of all vegetation to preserve channel capacity and allow access for inspections and repairs. …