Austin leaders encourage residents to apply for STEAR program for help during wildfires

Austin leaders encourage residents to apply for STEAR program for help during wildfires

The State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry program helps emergency officials in your county determine where you are and what you need during natural disasters. AUSTIN, Texas — Austin and Travis County leaders are encouraging residents to apply for a program designed to help out individuals in need during natural disasters. The State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry (STEAR) is a free registry that provides local emergency planners and emergency responders with additional information on the…

Read More

Hurricanes extend arena lease through 2044 with major renovation project

Hurricanes extend arena lease through 2044 with major renovation project

21 seconds ago Carolina Hurricanes’ Sebastian Aho (20) and Arizona Coyotes’ Phil Kessel (81) tussle during the third period of an NHL hockey game in RaleighCarolina Hurricanes’ Sebastian Aho (20) and Arizona Coyotes’ Phil Kessel (81) tussle during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker) RALEIGH, NC (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have extended the lease at their arena in Raleigh for 20…

Read More

Remembering Hurricane Alicia: Lessons learned 40 years after Houston’s “forgotten disaster”

Remembering Hurricane Alicia: Lessons learned 40 years after Houston’s “forgotten disaster”

This aerial view of the Flagship Hotel shows the damage caused by Hurricane Alicia on Galveston Island, Texas, Aug. 19, 1983. (AP Photo) Listen To embed this piece of audio in your site, please use this code: <iframe src=”https://embed.hpm.io/459505/459508″ style=”height: 115px; width: 100%;”></iframe> Forty years ago today, in 1983, Hurricane Alicia formed in the Gulf of Mexico. What was at that point a relatively small storm moved slowly and gained intensity from the gulf’s warm…

Read More

Why could living with pollution from wildfires raise your risk of developing dementia?

Why could living with pollution from wildfires raise your risk of developing dementia?

New research suggests there is a link between particle pollution and dementia. HOUSTON — We already know air pollution can be harmful to people with asthma from the very young to the very old. Now new research suggests that pollution puts all of us at risk of developing dementia. A study looked at 28,000 adults and saw 15% of them developed dementia in a 10-year period. The higher the concentration of particle pollution in their…

Read More

Warning signs seen for hours before Hawaii wildfires, children and elderly among the missing

Warning signs seen for hours before Hawaii wildfires, children and elderly among the missing

Ninety-nine people are now confirmed to have died in last week’s Hawaii wildfires with hundreds more still missing. Gov. Josh Green told CBS News Monday that crews might recover 10 to 20 people a day as the search of Maui continues. CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti reports on what’s being learned about conditions before the fire.

Read More

PNC Arena leaders announce Hurricanes lease extension, future plans

PNC Arena leaders announce Hurricanes lease extension, future plans

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 1:24PM RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — The biggest players who use PNC Arena announced upgrades coming to the facility that have been made possible by $300 million in funds from the City of Raleigh and Wake County. The Centennial Authority, Carolina Hurricanes and leaders with NC State didn’t provide much details when it come to renovations. It was announced that the Canes and Centennial Authority have agreed to a 20-year lease extension….

Read More

Hawaii works to identify 99 confirmed dead after Maui wildfires as teams intensify search

Hawaii works to identify 99 confirmed dead after Maui wildfires as teams intensify search

LAHAINA, Hawaii — Hawaii officials worked painstakingly to identify the 99 people confirmed killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui and expected to release the first names Tuesday, even as teams intensified the search for more dead in neighborhoods reduced to ash. A week after a blaze tore through historic Lahaina, many who survived have started moving into hundreds of hotel rooms set aside for displaced locals. Crews using cadaver dogs have scoured about 25% of…

Read More
1 250 251 252 253 254 1,331