Congress Thursday voted to restore jobless benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans who had lost them during a partisan...
Disaster (Flood,Coastal,EQ,W-Fire,etc.) News
West Virginia’s governor has asked a former top federal mine safety official to conduct an independent investigation of an explosion...
A computer error prevented the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers died in an explosion last week from receiving...
The Senate plans to explore weaknesses in federal mine safety laws when it convenes the first of a series of...
The mayor and other San Francisco officials are urging residents to approve a $412 million bond measure on the June...
A federal judge refused to immediately reinstate Louisiana State University hurricane and coastal researcher Ivor van Heerden, who was stripped...
A Mississippi couple and the insurer they were suing over hurricane damage to their coastal home from Hurricane Katrina have...
The death toll from an earthquake in the mountainous Tibetan plateau in southwestern China has reached about 300, with more...
There are no reports of damage from a minor earthquake that struck Southwest Virginia. The National Geological Survey’s Web site...
Catastrophe bond issuance conditions saw sustained improvement in the first quarter of 2010, reflecting the increase in prominence of the...