Prolonged wind events that unleash heavy rainfall and travel far distances sometimes qualify as derechos. Derechos can happen almost anywhere...                
            
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                    Lawmakers on Maui passed legislation aimed at eliminating a large percentage of the Hawaiian island’s vacation rentals to address a...                
            
        
                    Southern California Edison will set up a program to compensate victims of a deadly Los Angeles wildfire that it has...                
            
        
                    Los Angeles sued Airbnb, accusing the home rental company of allowing price gouging affecting at least 2,000 properties during January’s...                
            
        
                    Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered residents to higher ground after a powerful offshore earthquake Wednesday,...                
            
        
                    The mountain village of Ruidoso returned to the grim rituals of rebuilding after flash flooding and a deadly natural disaster,...                
            
        
                    A wildfire in Oregon prompted officials to issue evacuation orders for hundreds of homes and to close nearly 20 miles...                
            
        
                    Following the “paradigm-shifting” Los Angeles wildfires in January, the 2024-2025 wildfire season will be remembered as a turning point for...                
            
        
                    Fifty trucks will spend five months hauling Lahaina wildfire debris to a landfill in the center of Maui starting next...                
            
        
                    Some homeowners who lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires have filed lawsuits against three large insurers over claims...