Federal highway data show that nearly 1,000 bridges in West Virginia are structurally deficient. On a sufficiency scale of 0 to 100, the Federal Highway Administration rates seven bridges in the state as 0. But West Virginia Department of Transportation …
Some Austrian firefighters didn’t have to leave their station to deal with a recent alarm. The blaze came to them instead. Fireman Roland Brandl says that colleagues were doing chores at the station in the town of Pregarten Wednesday when …
Crews in Fort Wayne, Ind., have started working to repair a broken sewer pipe that created a 20-feet-deep sinkhole in a flood levee. City public works spokesman Frank Suarez says the clay pipe installed in the 1930s failed and the …
It’s easy to think the railroads are unsafe when there are pictures of burning, derailed cars on the nightly news. But the nation’s railroads are actually safer than ever, government statistics show. Derailments and crossing accidents have steadily declined nationwide …
Authorities say nearly 560 people around Arizona were arrested on suspicion of drunken driving over the long Memorial Day holiday weekend. According to a report by the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, officers and deputies made more than 13,000 …
Polluters liable for $100 million in cleanup fees for contaminated properties were never billed, and instead California taxpayers were stuck with the tab. The Sacramento Bee reports the state Department of Toxic Substances Control simply failed to send bills to …
The average medical claim from a motorcycle crash rose by more than one-fifth last year in Michigan after the state stopped requiring all riders to wear helmets, according to an insurance industry study. Across the nation, motorcyclists opposed to mandatory …
When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several different supercomputers located around the world to create their predictions. Some of those models are more accurate than others. During Hurricane Sandy last October, for …
It’s the wettest spring on record in Iowa, and all that rain has set the stage for a potential major flood. The average rainfall of 16.4 total inches during the months of March, April and May is the most that’s …
Authorities are investigating whether recent work on a furnace and water heater caused a fire and partial collapse at a home in an area of Queens, N.Y., damaged by Superstorm Sandy. The Wall Street Journal says city buildings department records …