The majority of Washington and Oregon (82%) have some level of concern about growing wildfire dangers, but only about one-in-four are taking precautions to combat the impacts of smoky air or fire before it becomes an immediate threat, a new …
CAC Group acquired Media Guarantors in Hollywood, California. Janet Comenos will assume the role of entertainment practice leader at CAC Group. Fred Milstein, president and CEO of Media Guarantors, will continue to lead the firm under the new structure. Media …
A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection employee was arrested on suspicion he started five brush fires in Northern California in recent weeks, officials said. Robert Hernandez, 38, was arrested at the Howard Forest Fire Station in Healdsburg, California, …
Authorities have identified two people killed when a gas station exploded and started a fire in a remote Idaho town last week. The Clearwater County Sheriff’s Office said Brandon Cook, 53, of Orofino and Wesley Lineberry, 62, of Pierce were …
Hackers are demanding $6 million in bitcoin from the operator of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for documents they stole during a cyberattack last month and posted on the dark web this week, an airport official said. The Port of Seattle, …
General Motors’ self-driving unit Cruise said on Thursday it will begin supervised testing with up to five autonomous vehicles in fall this year in California’s Bay Area. Cruise will deploy several manual mapping vehicles in Sunnyvale and Mountain View, following …
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance companies to preserve residential insurance coverage for 750,000 policyholders affected by the Airport, Bridge, and Line fires in the counties of Orange, Riverside, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino. …
A Washington man who claimed he was too injured to work while operating a metal fabrication shop faces a felony charge in an alleged $340,000 workers’ compensation scam. Travis Lee Johnson, 52, of Spokane Valley, pleaded not guilty recently to …
A crash of a plane roughly a half-mile from a runway near the southwest Alaska community of St. Mary’s killed all four occupants on board the aircraft, authorities said. Alaska State Troopers said they received a report of an overdue …
The California Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $1.7 million wage theft settlement for 550 workers in an alleged scheme in which the owner of multiple Wingstop locations in Bakersfield created separate corporate entities to circumvent labor laws. The franchisee must …
