A panel making safety recommendations from the Oso, Wash., mudslide is close to completing a final draft for Gov. Jay Inslee. The Joint SR 530 Landslide Commission holds its final meeting Tuesday to finalize the report going to the governor …
The homes destroyed in the March 22 mudslide at Oso, Wash., have mostly been removed, and Highway 530 has been reopened between Arlington and Darrington, but work continues at the site where 43 people lost their lives. Before & After: …
Property owners who lost their houses in the Oso mudslide probably still owe payments on their home loans. Lyn Peters of the state Department of Financial Institutions says mortgages are legally binding contracts,even if the homes are gone. The Seattle …
A scientist who documented the landslide conditions on a Washington hill that buckled last weekend in a massive mudslide warned in a 1999 report filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of “the potential for a large catastrophic failure.” …