Economic, governmental, environmental, and community interests often end up just as tangled as debris in the wake of a storm. Margie Huggins has spent her retirement tending her parents’ farm in ...

The federal agency conducting the debris removal cleanup in the Eaton and Palisades fire zones has expanded the scope of its disaster cleanup in Los Angeles County, and extended a key deadline, giving ...

Margie Huggins has spent her retirement tending her parents’ farm in Transylvania County, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She grew up there, and has tried to give back to ...

Margie Huggins lives on 16 rolling acres of farmland in Transylvania County, North Carolina. The Little River winds its way up to her property line, and she likes to take a golf cart downhill from her ...

HOUSTON — After months of growing piles of heavy trash lining streets across Houston, city officials have launched a new cleanup effort using leftover disaster funds and an outside contractor, Mayor ...

This guide was created in partnership with Blue Ridge Public Radio, so it focuses on western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia. However, there is general information for ...

BENTON — The Franklin County government has issued a disaster declaration ahead of cleanup efforts from this week’s winter storm. The declaration is effective Friday, Jan. 10, and will expire one week ...

A lawsuit alleging that disaster-recovery workers were put in unsafe, overcrowded conditions during early pandemic cleanup work in mid-Michigan has been resolved through a confidential settlement, the ...

Buncombe County has spent $17 million to hire contractors and get work done to restore the community after Helene. One of biggest, if not the biggest costs will be to clean debris from the streets and ...

MINI MARATHON BE IMPACTED? THE GOOD NEWS FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING. THE BAD NEWS? IT’S LEAVING A BIG MESS BEHIND. NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE MASSIVE CLEANUP. WLKY’S MADISON ELLIOTT JOINS US LIVE TONIGHT ...

It’s often that way with the sprawling, messy business of disaster cleanup. In the aftermath of hurricanes, wildfires, and the like, a nesting doll of contractors and subcontractors, officials at ...