Recovery

A 30-page plan says it seeks 'comprehensive improvements across the entire suite of NOAA nautical chart products' for the 3.4 million square nautical miles of water and 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline the agency charts.

The budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 also called for renewing the city’s contracts with two regional agencies that assist the Fire Department.

The latest climate outlooks don’t indicate unusual extremes of rainfall or temperature through this month, but warmer and drier weather are likely for July through September.

The technology tested included the use of drones to provide real-time imagery of a brushfire, which is relevant to the greater Gorge area in particular due to the high number of wildfires each year in the area.

The new agreement, if approved by the Assembly, would save the city close to $1 million for unpaid wage increases that had been negotiated in better times.

More than 99 percent of calls to Portland 911 are reported to overseers and the public as being answered within 20 seconds, when in fact, many cell phone calls took much longer.

For the fiscal year 2017, FEMA's small project minimum is listed at $3,100 and a maximum listed at $123,000 with a statewide indicator of $1.43 and a countywide indicator of $3.61 based on population.

It's a breath of new life into a mostly defunct federal 'wind-profiling' network that was largely concentrated in the Midwest in the 1990s.

The department today responds to more than 10,000 calls per year — the vast majority being medical emergencies — a number that has grown over the past decade from about 7,500 per year.

In addition to helping hands, the local and state community also provided financial assistance to the nonprofit’s project.

'If someone is slow in making decisions it can be costly – imaging having no one at all.'

Started in 1977, Safety Town teaches children pedestrian safety.

The city has hired nine 'community evaluators' to sit on the three-person boards that review the oral exam given to about 1,800 applicants for the Columbus Division of Fire's academy.

Eighteen Livingston Parish Schools were damaged in last summer's devastating flood.

The zone plan took three years to develop and is based on the most up-to-date engineering data for the region, state.