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Alaska City Faces Another Suit Related to 2015 Landslide

The city of Sitka, Alaska, has been added as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by a woman whose home was destroyed in a deadly landslide. Christine McGraw filed the lawsuit against Sound Development LLC, the company she purchased her …

Minnesota School District Will Pay Landslide Victims’ Families

The St. Louis Park school district has agreed to pay $200,000 to the families of the victims of a deadly landside at a St. Paul, Minn., park. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports a Hennepin County district judge approved the …

Indonesia Landslide Kills 6 Villagers; 18 Missing

A government official says a landslide triggered by torrential rain has killed at least six people and left 18 others missing on Indonesia’s main island of Java. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho of the Disaster Mitigation Agency says nine houses were buried …