Recovery

The Denver Post examined more than 367,000 loans, grants and awards from multiple federal agencies in a first-of-its-kind analysis tracking how federal dollars filtered their way down to the state’s 64 counties.

The state's largest utility agreed to pay more than $55 million in order to avoid prosecution on last year's Dixie Fire — the second largest wildfire in California's recorded history — and the 2019 Kincade Fire in Sonoma County.

The next generation of emergency managers needs to be trained, educated, and certified in a similar manner to how we educate other public safety professionals, and communicate about many subjects, and manage millions of dollars.

A tornado watch was in effect for multiple North Texas counties including Dallas and Tarrant until 2 a.m. Tuesday. A severe thunderstorm watch was also first issued for most of North Texas, including the Metroplex.

Mifflin has one of the highest COVID-19 death rates among U.S. counties with at least 40,000 people, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University — 591 deaths per 100,000 residents.

The judge ruled that the group, Integrity in Government Spending, did not have any connection to the area of the Marshall fire burn and thus “does not claim that it would benefit or suffer any harm based on the outcome of the bid award.”

A report released last week by the American Library Association underscores the role of public libraries in expanding digital equity during the COVID-19 pandemic through partnerships with government entities and other efforts.

Some $4.7 million of the total $11.2 million in FEMA aid went to Whatcom County, which suffered more than $150 million in damages from two rounds of severe Nooksack River flooding after drenching storm systems hit Western Washington.

In the Bay Area, these once largely unknown public officials have often been celebrated for their aggressive response to the pandemic, issuing some of the most restrictive — and protective — orders in the country.

High waters have caused repeated damage to more than 1,300 flood-insured homes, businesses and government buildings in Maryland in recent decades, according to data obtained by The Baltimore Sun.

In 2021, the coronavirus caused 358 officer deaths nationwide, compared to 62 gunfire deaths and 22 fatalities from automobile crashes — the second- and third-leading causes of death, respectively.

Some of the financial pain in 2020 was temporary, including a state emergency order that suspended nonurgent procedures for two months during Minnesota’s initial COVID-19 wave.

Many elected officials complained during the chaotic months in the first year of the pandemic that there was no playbook for them to follow. They were right.

“For weeks, we have been closely examining the needs within Idaho’s health care system with an eye toward ending the public health emergency declaration as soon as possible.”

Local public health officials verify that deaths are due to COVID complications by checking for a positive test result and that a coronavirus infection was named as a primary cause of death on the death certificate.

For Jace, who was 5 at the time of his COVID ordeal, the high fever and lethargy started about four weeks after he had a relatively mild case of COVID-19.

After four surges of multiple variants of COVID-19, the pandemic appears to be ebbing. Mask mandates are now lifted for many of us. But for those left behind by the victims of COVID, any sense of normal is a long time away.

While FEMA is often seen providing trailers and money to victims of hurricanes, tornadoes and floods, survivors of this California wildfire complain that the agency has had little to offer them.