A new and improved Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark is opening this week, less than a year after being significantly damaged by a tornado. The rebuilt arena hosts a Women of Faith event on Friday and Saturday and will break …
Water caused $9.1 billion in annual homeowner policy property losses from 2007 to 2009 – approximately 23 percent of all homeowner property losses. But up to 93 percent, or almost $8.5 billion, of the cost of water damage could have …
The Red Cross says preliminary reports indicate four homes, five outbuildings and possibly a few vacant mobile homes were destroyed in a wind-driven wildfire that swept through Spencer. Red Cross spokesman Rusty Surette said in a news release that dozens …
A Dickinson furniture business with a history of fires has suffered another one. The Dickinson Press reports that no one was hurt in the Wednesday morning fire at Dakota Church Furniture, and the damage was not extensive. Company official Blaine …
Eleven percent of new homes built on brownfield land have suffered problems as a result of the land the property is built on, affecting a total of 74,000 homes in the last 10 years, according to a report by home …
The U.S. Small Business Administration is providing low-interest disaster loans to private individuals, businesses and nonprofits on Hawaii’s Big Island as a result of damage caused by this month’s tsunami. But private property damage on other islands didn’t qualify for …
Kansas City parks officials say thieves and vandals have caused $85,000 damage to two of the city’s most well-known fountains. The Kansas City Star reports that thieves took $25,000 in lights from the JC Nichols Memorial Fountain on the County …
Insurance is paying for the bulk of the cost of replacing the roof of the 29-year old Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn. Workers on March 25 began replacing the roof, which ripped open after a December storm dumped …
Last week’s tornado in western Pennsylvania caused about $4.5 million damage when it destroyed 30 homes and damaged about 60 others, officials stated. The National Weather Service says the F2 tornado packed 120 mph winds as it cut a 300-yard-wide …