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:...
Rebuilding After Devastating California Wildfires
(TNS) - California wildfires have been known to ravage through cities, burning thousands of acres and destroying properties and homes, and taking lives.Sometimes, forcing residents...
Scores of Bridges Damaged in Record Kentucky Flooding
(TNS) - For the last few days, Jennifer Myers and William Duff have used her father’s pickup truck to get to their jobs at a...
Heat Turned McKinney Fire into Deadly, Unstoppable Monster
(TNS) - It was the perfect storm of factors for a deadly wildfire, experts say — extreme heat, dense and dry vegetation, and erratic winds...