Maine Counties Exceed Disaster Threshold After Floods
(TNS) - Franklin County reported nearly $1.46 million in initial estimated public infrastructure damage from the April 30 through May 1 rainstorm that resulted in...
‘I’m Just Grateful to be Here’
(TNS) - Irvin Walker feels lucky to be alive after a bullet pierced his chest close to his heart and left fragments behind.Walker is one...
Dispatch Logs Show the Horror of Michigan State Shooting
(TNS) - Panicked witness accounts, worried parents and one false report detailing a threat of explosives on campus consumed a team of Ingham County 911...
Monitoring COVID is Getting Harder for Communities
(TNS) - With wide-reaching intervention against COVID-19 now firmly in the past, officials and experts continue to preach the importance of individual decision-making to assess...
Calif. Governor Wants More Spending on Flood Threats
(TNS) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed an increase to state spending on flood threats after a record-breaking winter, while retaining previously proposed budget cuts...
Flood Insurance Rates Will Double for Some Floridians
(TNS) - In a state already being crushed by high insurance premiums, here’s more bad news: Floridians are going to be paying a lot more...
‘Remember the Good in Your Firefighter’
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas paid tribute this week to the 79 firefighters who died in 2022 and all those previous to that, and said...
Report Highlights New Hampshire’s Statewide EMS Strain
(TNS) - A new report from the N.H. Ambulance Association states that the strain on the EMS network in the state "is escalating into a...
Calif. Officials Identify Infrastructure Flood Risk
(TNS) - Senior Kern County officials assessing flood risks to critical local infrastructure have identified Bakersfield Heart Hospital as potentially vulnerable to inundation in the...
Law Enforcement, Faith Leaders Talk Security Plans
(TNS) - Locking entry doors during church services would have seemed unimaginable 20 years ago, said Mark Rychak, a member of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church...