An unattended cooking fire sparked a fire that had threatened hundreds of homes near a Southern California dam, fire officials said Sunday. The fire was reported shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, triggering the nighttime evacuation of about 300 homes in …
An annual study released yesterday by Plymouth Rock Assurance in conjunction with Distracted Driving Awareness Month shows the highest percentage of New Jersey drivers surveyed in the poll’s three-year history admitting to texting while driving. While a rising percentage of …
U.S insured property values as of 2014 exceed $90 trillion, but the bulk of that is increasingly concentrated in vulnerable coastal areas. With that in mind, new risk metrics could better help monitor exposures, Karen Clark & Co. concluded in …
U.S. companies including insurers and aerospace manufacturers urged federal aviation regulators on Tuesday to speed up the use of drones in disaster response and relief operations in the United States. A report sponsored by the groups and released by the …
A Washington man who was caught on video racing BMX bikes while claiming he was too injured to work pled guilty last week to stealing more than $14,000 in disability benefits. Tony T. Perry Sr., pleaded guilty to two counts …
Blue Bell Creameries Inc., working to contain the spread of listeria after three people died from the bacterial disease, expanded a product recall to include everything it makes. Following an earlier recall of some ice cream, listeria has been found …
Some hotels on the Oregon coast are resisting a new tsunami awareness initiative. The city of Seaside has given hotels key holders that contain warnings of a potential tsunami and evacuation instructions, in an effort to inform visitors about the …
Officials are considering revising tsunami hazard maps after researchers found the Ventura fault line in Southern California is much more dangerous than previously believed. The Los Angeles Times reports that new geological research shows that the Ventura fault, is capable …
Five years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill, the industry is working on drilling even further into the risky depths beneath the Gulf of Mexico to tap massive deposits once thought unreachable. Opening this new frontier, miles below the …
The United Nations’ weather agency has removed “Isis” from a list of future Pacific hurricane names, deeming it inappropriate given that the extremist Islamic State group has used ISIS as an acronym. World Meteorological Organization spokeswoman Clare Nullis in Geneva …