U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest management plan that’s been in place for three decades. The …
New York City has issued its first drought warning in 22 years after months of little rain — and will restart the flow of drinking water from an out-of-service aqueduct as supplies run low. Dry conditions across the Northeast have …
A man was arrested on suspicion of intentionally setting brush fires in Massachusetts during a time of dry conditions that have led to blazes throughout the Northeast, police said Monday. Police said they arrested the 72-year-old Attleboro man during a …
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Board of Directors met last week to review information related to the agency’s 2025 budget. The meeting presented new information on TWIA losses from 2024 storms as projected policy growth in the coming year. The …
Great American Insurance Group, headquartered in Cincinnati, promoted Todd D. Gambrell to divisional president, excess liability, effective Jan.1, 2025. Gambrell will succeed John V. Bracca, who will retire in January after more than 30 years of service. Gambrell joined Great …
The U.S. Department of Labor and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have entered into a conciliation agreement in which the federal contractor will pay $900,000 in back wages and interest to resolve alleged systemic racial hiring affecting 6,123 …
A new Gold Rush is taking shape on a quiet stretch of Kansas prairie. There, a clutch of startups backed by the likes of Bill Gates are searching below the surface for naturally occurring hydrogen, a fuel that can generate …
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a Chapter 11 plan for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York that includes a $320 million fund to compensate victims of clergy sexual abuse and settles insurance issues. Judge Martin Glenn …
President Joe Biden’s administration is seeking $98.6 billion in emergency disaster relief funding from Congress to address the devastation from recent back-to-back hurricanes that hammered the US southeast and left billions in damage. The president’s budget chief, Shalanda Young, on …
US auto safety regulators are probing two recent recalls by Ford Motor Co. as the carmaker struggles to contain quality lapses in its vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating an April recall of more than 450,000 Bronco …
