Recovery

The winter weather has caused more than 300 blood drives to be canceled in 20 states since Jan. 1.

The partnership, announced during a telephone news conference from Sacramento, involves several state and federal agencies and environmental groups.

Local radio amateur group volunteers can help maintain communications until the normal operations resume.

Nextdoor approached Austin police about participating in the pilot program, making the Police Department the first agency in the U.S. to use Nextdoor to poll users.

The joint city networking project — made possible through an intergovernmental agency agreement — will be a vast step toward modernizing a largely unchanged emergency system.

The effects will be hotter, drier and more extreme weather that will spark massive insect outbreaks, tree and plant die-offs, bigger and more costly wildfires.

Amid an already rainier-than-usual winter, heavy rains last week triggered the controversial "back pumping" of water from South Florida's vast farming region.

Health officials are advising women who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant to avoid traveling to certain parts of Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

'I had to keep my head down. If I lifted my head up the snow was beating so much in my eyes I couldn't see. It was dangerous.'

'It’s going to be based on tests and science and people believing, including outside experts, that it’s safe to drink. We would all hope sooner, rather than later; but it’s not based on time, it’s based on science, facts and caution.'

California has $30 million for natural disasters, but Pacifica officials will need to compete with other cities to get their share of the money to pay for the damage.

'There's this view out there that we messed up. We didn't. We did the right thing.'

City representatives that the fire has changed the way it plans to respond to disasters in the future.

The city's police department is partnering with St. Louis Accident Reconstruction to use its surveying equipment as an economical way to provide digital records of shooting scenes. Their devices and precise measurements let detectives create electronic three-dimensional models.

Remaining in a car during a tornado can be fatal. A Dec. 26 storm killed eight people on highways near Dallas.