Although this new suburb of 80,000 people was just a few miles from the epicenter of a 5.4-magnitude earthquake, the...
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Despite shaking a large swath of Southern California, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake was not the “Big One” that scientists have long...
Authorities in eastern Idaho say a series of wildfires in recent years, including the largest so far this year, may...
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. said second-quarter profit fell 84 percent due to a charge at a subsidiary, and a writedown...
Heavy airtankers dropped fire retardant along a ridge near the Red Lodge Mountain Ski Resort in Montana to protect the...
France’s agriculture minister said Wednesday that “big emerging countries” were to blame for the collapse of World Trade Organization talks...
Construction costs in New York are far higher than in other major U.S. city due to factors ranging from hefty...
North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm should stop a new television and radio ad that advertises his agency’s assistance programs,...
Florida will pay $224 million to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. for a guarantee that the state can borrow up to $4...
An insurance business incorporated in 1883 by two former slaves when segregation laws and white businesses considered blacks nearly invisible...