Frigid Monster Storm Across US Claims at Least 24 Lives December 27, 2022 By Carolyn Thompson and Jake Bleiberg BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Millions of people hunkered down against a deep freeze Sunday morning to ride out the frigid...
Report Criticizes Virginia’s Response to Snowy I-95 Gridlock April 3, 2022 By Sarah Rankin RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia state agencies collectively “lost situational awareness” and failed to keep up with growing gridlock during...
Aging Oil-Storage Ships Pose Safety, Environmental Risks Around the World February 23, 2022 By Paul Burkhardt and Julian Lee The decades-old, oil-storage ship that blew up off the coast of Nigeria recently — killing some of its crew and...
Viewpoint: A Resurgence in Catastrophes and COVID-19 Clash July 26, 2021 By Tom Johansmeyer and Ted Gregory Hurricane season has arrived. Although we’re still ahead of the historical September peak, PCS has already recorded two tropical events...
Alphabet Jumps Into Drone Air-Traffic Control With Flight App June 29, 2021 By Alan Levin Alphabet Inc.’s drone-delivery venture, Wing, is releasing free software for U.S. drone users to get permission to fly near sensitive...
Keystone Pipeline Shut After Spilling 9,000 Barrels of Oil in N. Dakota November 1, 2019 By Devika Krishna Kumar An estimated 9,120 barrels of oil have spilled from TC Energy Corp’s Keystone crude pipeline in North Dakota, state authorities...
Mississippi Homeowners Urged to Numbers on Homes April 21, 2014 Emergency officials say Diamondhead residents who fail to post their addresses on their homes and mail boxes are making it...
Ohio Fire Department Gets $8M to Hire Firefighters March 3, 2014 Cincinnati’s fire department has received more than $8 million in federal funding to hire firefighters as part of a federal...
Kansas Air Guard Tests Tornado Response Skills March 13, 2013 With vehicles strewn across roads, members of the Kansas Air National Guard turned Topeka’s Forbes Field into a disaster area...
Study Surveys Impact of Leap Day IllinoisTornado March 1, 2013 On Leap Day last year, the largest natural disaster in Illinois in 2012 devastated a small town in Southern Illinois....