Separately, the LAFD has defended its decision not to pre-deploy any engines and firefighters to the Palisades — as they had ...

Following "unsustainable" winter heating prices, the state ordered gas utilities to reduce delivery fees so the average ...

Department liaison officer Brendon Clark said the stranding was the first by false killer whales in Tasmania in since 1974. That was a pod of more than 160 whales that landed on a beach near Stanley ...

Snowy roads led to hundreds of crashes throughout Virginia and North Carolina, including a series of crashes on an interstate ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has implemented speed limit restrictions across three interstates in our area due to winter weather in our area. PennDOT is temporarily reducing ...

Stokes and Surry County Schools parents frustrated after district leaders announce last minute winter weather delays and closures. Thoughts from parents and what school administration says went into t ...

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Thousands of workers at Wright Patterson Air Force Base face an uncertain future after news of large defense department cuts.

A bill that would reshape law enforcement policies in Missouri has passed through the House of Representatives as another ...

Route 106 North in Loudon is closed due to a crash, authorities said. The Loudon Police Department did not confirm how many ...

The judge in the Karen Read case tells her lawyers to be ready to explain recent revelations by a specially appointed ...

A “shoot out” in the east valley that sent two people to the hospital late Monday night was started after a woman called one of the shooters to come get her from a “bad gang ...