Floodwaters Threaten California City and Prison Complex
(TNS) - Just west of this normally dusty prison town, a civic nightmare is unfolding: Tulare Lake, a body of water that did not exist...
911 System Translates Spanish Audio to English in Real Time
Although Monica Sanchez, dispatcher at the Presidio County Sheriff’s Office in Marfa, Texas, speaks Spanish, she often has trouble understanding the local 911 callers, whose...
Heatwave Set to Bake Snowpack
(TNS) - After weeks of uncertainty, forecasters say an incoming California heat wave will trigger rapid snowmelt on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada and...
FEMA’s Flood Insurance Program Needs More Tweaking
(TNS) - In between near-constant pummeling by Republicans, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed at a congressional hearing last week that a new...
Truck Crashes and Spills Hazardous Waste Shutting Down 1-80
(TNS) - A portion of Interstate 80 west in Luzerne County remained closed Friday following a three-vehicle wreck Thursday night, as authorities investigated and crews...
Who Should Get the COVID-19 Bivalent Booster?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took a step this week toward simplifying COVID-19 recommendations and allowing older adults who may be at...
Alert Awakens Floridians, Raises Questions and Tempers
(TNS) - An early morning test of Florida’s emergency alert system that roused people from sleep on Thursday — and raised questions and tempers —...
‘America Is Burning’ and Needs a Unified National Strategy
Fifty years after a report, America Burning, was issued to bring awareness to the nation’s fire problem, “America is still burning,” and with more vigor....
Floridians Still Flooded 6 Months After Hurricane Ian
(TNS) - More than six months after Hurricane Ian drenched the state with historic flooding, an unknown number of Central Floridians that could reach into...
Macomb County Police Bolster Mental Health Response
(TNS) - Veteran law enforcement administrators in Macomb County have noticed their officers are responding to a steadily increasing amount of calls involving someone struggling...