Texas Committee to Investigate Panhandle Wildfires March 14, 2024 By Jayme Lozano-Carver, The Texas Tribune LUBBOCK — Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is creating a legislative committee to investigate the Texas Panhandle wildfires to ensure...
Oklahoma House Passes Bill to Fund Fortified Homes Program March 13, 2024 Oklahoma lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would provide financial grants to residents to...
Texas, Oklahoma Areas Face New Extreme Fire Risks: Weather Watch March 13, 2024 By Brian K. Sullivan Red flag fire warnings are up across the Texas Panhandle, as well as parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas,...
People Moves: Stratico Appointed Professional Liability Practice Leader at Brown & Riding March 12, 2024 Brown & Riding, headquartered in Dallas, appointed Bill Stratico national professional liability practice leader. Stratico has over 35 years of...
Xcel Texas Wildfire Legal Reckoning to Take Years to Play Out March 12, 2024 By Mark Chediak and Rachel Graf (Xcel Energy Inc. will likely be wrangling for years with the legal fallout from the wildfires burning through the Texas...
Texas Firefighters Make Progress Containing Panhandle Wildfires March 12, 2024 By Jayme Lozano-Carver, The Texas Tribune LUBBOCK — Texas firefighters are gaining more control over the remaining wildfires in the Panhandle, more than two weeks after...
Huge Texas Blaze Shows Power-Line Fires Are a Widespread Threat March 11, 2024 By Mark Chediak, Will Wade and David R. Baker Massive wildfires sparked by power lines used to be a California problem, one many utility executives considered safely confined to...
Drought and Extreme Heat Devastate Louisiana’s Crawfish Harvest March 11, 2024 By Sara Cline BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, the nation’s top producer of the crustaceans that are...
Louisiana Commissioner Temple Seeks $20M for Fortify Homes Program March 8, 2024 By Ezra Amacher Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple expects lawmakers to allocate at least $20 million to the Lousiana Fortify Homes Program during...
Texas Utility Rules Didn’t Prevent Panhandle Wildfires March 8, 2024 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune Before it burned to a pile of ashes, Melanie McQuiddy’s house on the outskirts of Canadian was her family’s home...