Orange County, California, with its diverse landscape and climate, experiences a variety of weather conditions that can significantly impact road safety. Situated near the ocean, desert, and… Read More
GRAND COUNTY, COLORADO – On Saturday, June 1, 2024, a tragic rafting accident occurred on the Colorado River, initially reported in the Gore Canyon but lat… Read More
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is suing Farmers Insurance over an alleged “widespread scheme” to underinsure homes across California.
Price has accused Farmers… Read More
We've apparently reached the "University arresting its own professors" stage of decline. —Edward Snowden https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1783626709364797896Zionarci… Read More
MORA COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Two years later, victims are still struggling to recover from the state’s largest, most destructive wildfire in New Mexico’s history. The… Read More
BERNALILLO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A county commissioner is worried Tuesday that funding to expand a popular bike trail could be pulled. The Alameda Drain Trail was firs… Read More
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — A Harbor-UCLA Medical Center surgeon who was accused of a variety of acts of misbehavior, including some that were sexist and racist, has been fired by the hospita… Read More
When wildfires broke out across Maui last August, some firefighters carried victims piggyback over downed power lines to safety and sheltered survivors inside their engines. Another drove a… Read More
By Ryan Sabalow | CalMatters
Hundreds of homes in Joe Patterson’s Northern California Assembly district burned to the ground in the Caldor Fire.
In the three years since that devastati… Read More
Flames consume vehicles as the Dixie Fire tears through the Indian Falls community in Plumas County, Calif., Saturday, July 24, 2021. The fire destroyed multiple residences in the area. (AP… Read More
A victim of the Oregon Road fire received $3,000 from FEMA, but he said the small payout feels like a “slap in the face.”
ELK, Wash. — Recovery efforts are underway as… Read More
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (KRQE) – The Coalition for Fire Fund Fairness (CFFF) – a grassroots coalition of victims of the 2022 Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire in Northern Ne… Read More
At least one of Chevron’s spills is still running 21 years after it began in a Kern County oilfield, although a state spokesperson said it has been reduced by 98% “from its peak… Read More
With more California homeowners just discovering their insurance policies are getting canceled — and hundreds of thousands of others stuck with a pricey option of last resort &md… Read More
Advocating for Lahaina: Jill Tokuda
Alfredo G. Evangelista | Assistant Editor | All Photos Courtesy Jill Tokuda
“With all the things I have seen, the stories I have heard, the hands I… Read More
California is a land of contradiction as much as it is a land of promise.The wealthiest state and the state with the highest level of poverty. It carries tremendous social and political in… Read More
Chicago last week brought the newest lawsuit against Big Oil companies for spreading disinformation about the climate-warming hazards of burning fossil fuels — adding the third larges… Read More
A group rallying to help secondary victims of the August wildfires is asking Gov. Josh Green to extend protections for tenants facing evictions from landlords seeking more lucrative re… Read More
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A California couple whose gender-reveal event ignited a fatal wildfir… Read More
An Oregon state jury has ruled against PacifiCorp, an electric utility owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, ordering the company to pay a minimum of $62 million to nine ho… Read More
This story was originally published by Honolulu Civil Beat and is republished with permission. More than 140 insurance industry plaintiffs have joined the cascade of lawsu… Read More
Tanner Mosher ceremonial resolution. PC: County of Maui / Akakū.
Maui Firefighter Tanner Mosher was honored with a ceremonial resolution on Friday for his heroism during the Aug. 8… Read More
In a sea of highs and lows, 2023 left the world and the United States celebrating and reeling.
Hamas brutally attacked Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, sparking a new war in the Middle East. T… Read More
Phyllis James Obituary news has spread like wildfire throughout the world. Everyone who knows him appears interested in learning more about the news.
Shane Matthew James Jr., a 34-year-old B… Read More
This week on Maui, the band Kanekoa is performing at a benefit concert for Maui wildfire victims, the free annual Jimi Hendrix tribute takes place in Pāʻia and for the observan… Read More
For entertainment this week on Maui, Great American Jazz Piano Competition finalist Jeff Hellmer & Friends play in Lahaina, Maui Prep performs Beauty and the Beast and three-time N… Read More
People trying to flee the Maui wildfires were left with only one way out after mistakes by local officials closed several roads, according to an investigation by the BBC… Read More
MARTINEZ — An attorney and former Alamo resident was convicted this week of bilking his clients out of a $400,000 settlement Pacific Gas & Electric Co. agreed to pay following a 20… Read More
LAHAINA: Audio of 911 calls from a lethal August wildfire launched late Thursday by Maui County authorities reveals a terrifying and chaotic scene because the inferno swept via the historic… Read More
From May 31 to June 1, 1921, massive mobs of white rioters destroyed the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. This instance of racial violence was covered up for decades by the… Read More
The authorities announced on Friday that they currently believe 97 people died in the Maui wildfire instead of the 115 fatalities they had been reporting for weeks, a surprising developm… Read More
A Hawaii state lawmaker on Friday slammed President Biden’s recent trip to the devastated island of Maui, telling Fox News that locals saw his comments as a &ld… Read More
Medical Services & Financial AssistanceIndividuals, families, and businesses who are struggling after the devastating wildfires in the Lāhainā area… Read More