LA Fire Suspect Angry About No Date for New Year’s, Prosecutors Say May 1, 2026 By Patricia Hurtado Prosecutors said the man they charged with starting the deadly 2025 Palisades Fire in Los Angeles was upset about a...
Trump Says He’ll Probe Banks Over Response to LA Wildfires April 24, 2026 By Catherine Lucey and John Gittelsohn President Donald Trump said he would look into the actions of banks in their response to last year’s devastating Los...
State Farm Paid a ‘Hail’ of a Lot of Claims in 2025 April 23, 2026 State Farm said it paid out $5.6 billion nationally for hail claims in 2025, and $1.4 billion in Texas alone....
Wildfire Survivors Could Face Another Blow From Taxes on Settlement Payouts April 22, 2026 Thousands of survivors of the 2025 Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, have elected to accept an upfront settlement from the...
Toilet Paper Warehouse in California Destroyed by Fire; Employee Arrested April 8, 2026 By Janet Freund, Redd Brown and Andrea Chang An employee of a company that operates a distribution center for Kimberly-Clark Corp. has been arrested on arson charges after...
North Korea-Linked Hack Hit Axios Software That Powers Online Services April 1, 2026 By AJ Vicens Hackers linked to North Korea breached behind-the-scenes software that runs many common online functions in an effort to steal login...
EPA Watchdog: Nation’s Most Contaminated Sites Vulnerable to Floods, Wildfires April 1, 2026 By Michael Biesecker and Jason Dearen Some 100 of the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires, a potential...
Cyclone Forces Mine Closures as Winds Lash North Australia March 20, 2026 By Mary Hui, Paul-Alain Hunt and Ben Westcott Tropical cyclone Narelle struck Australia’s northern Queensland coast on Friday, bringing destructive winds and heavy rains that forced miners to...
Authorities Search Debris After Suspected Tornadoes Kill 6 in Michigan, Oklahoma March 9, 2026 By Dave Collins, Steve Karnowski and Mike Householder Authorities searched through rubble and debris in southern Michigan on Saturday after suspected tornadoes tore through the region and killed...
Besieged Berkshire Utility Tries to Rewrite Who Pays for Wildfires February 27, 2026 By Michelle Ma and Alexandre Rajbhandari When smoke rapidly engulfed his home in Oregon, retired firefighter Fred Cuozzo rushed away in his pickup truck and nearly...