Recovery

Former Mayor Billy Keyserling and his brother were sailing on the Beaufort River in South Carolina when the boat they were on capsized in heavy wind, a representative for the family told a reporter on Sunday.

El Dorado County government officials released a five-minute video Tuesday in which residents plead with President Biden to grant “individual assistance” to survivors of last summer’s disastrous Caldor Fire.

Yesterday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that former NYC CIO Jessica Tisch will take over as commissioner of the Department of Sanitation. Tisch left the CIO position back in February.

New infusions of federal funding and other steps are among many local flood-preparedness efforts as the recovery from Hurricane Ida remains ongoing. But the patchwork of efforts in the Philadelphia region and beyond can't allay nerves about the looming hurricane season.

Last spring, the former phosphate processing plant drew international headlines when a leak threatened to collapse the system and send contaminated water rushing into the surrounding area.

Half of the homes in Taopi, Minn., are gone. Tall trees stand no more. Volunteers moved Wednesday through muddy, cold ground made worse by light snow to clear out shredded walls, appliances and family keepsakes.

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.