Wildfire ‘Go Bag’ Should Be Updated With These Essentials
(TNS) - First responders train hard to prepare for wildfires and other disasters. Residents need to do the same, according to the Klamath County Fire...
Springfield SWAT Doing Safety Walk-Throughs at Schools
(TNS) - Springfield police officers and firefighters conducted walk-throughs at several city school buildings on Tuesday as the district looks to improve the overall safety...
New Army Corps Plan in Baltimore Includes Flood Walls
(TNS) - To prevent damage from storms like Sandy in 2012 and Isabel, a watershed flood event for Baltimore in 2003, the Army Corps of...
County Again Tables Much-Needed Emergency Radio Purchase
(TNS) - What was supposed to be an accelerated process for buying some of the radios Payne County needs to serve emergency responders, hasn't gone...
Residents Vote on Tax for Wildfire Mitigation and Response
(TNS) - Ballot measures that would introduce two new sales taxes and allocate tax funds to wildfire mitigation, emergency response and transportation will appear on...
Long Flood History, but Feds Have a Short List of Solutions
(TNS) - As water rushed from the River Des Peres into hundreds of University City homes after record-shattering rains late last month, city and federal...
Wildfire Legislation Stalls as McKinney Fire Burns
(TNS) - As the McKinney fire grew to become California’s largest of the season, leaving four people dead so far in Siskiyou County, members of...
What We Know About the New COVID Variant on the CDC’s Radar
(TNS) — The BA.4.6 subvariant of COVID-19 is the newest “variant of concern.”It is present in at least four states that the Centers for Disease...
King County’s Wildfire Reduction Plan Taps All Stakeholders
Western Washington hasn’t generally been threatened by wildfires to the extent of other communities on the West Coast. But times are changing and because of...
NOAA Updates Hurricane Forecasts, Predicts Busy Peak Ahead
(TNS) — It’s been a quiet hurricane season so far, but NOAA says a busy peak is ahead.The agency’s mid-season forecast actually dipped a little:...