Cuba’s foreign minister recoiled Friday at what he called President Donald Trump’s “disrespectful, offensive and interventionist” speech to the United Nations as debt-ridden member states grapple with back-to-back hurricanes.
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The South Florida nursing home where 10 elderly patients died after Hurricane Irma knocked the air conditioning out for three days is now suing in a bid to restore its Medicaid funding.
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With Houston facing the monumental task of disposing debris from flood-ravaged homes, tempers flared at Wednesday’s City Council meeting when a council member asked city staff to give him a schedule for when trash will be picked up in his district.
Read moreImages of seniors in wheelchairs sitting waist deep in the waters which flooded their nursing home after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston told a tale of a tragedy that could have been avoided with the help of greater federal investment and oversight, a bipartisan senate committee agreed on Wednesday.
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Louisiana’s comprehensive coastal restoration plan “is not comprehensive,” nor does anyone know how to pay for it, a top state official warned during a Tuesday meeting.
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More than 120 residents of a small Texas town claim in state court that Chevron and Phillips 66 knowingly flooded their community without warning after Hurricane Harvey.
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Residents of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are being warned to brace themselves for a potentially catastrophic encounter with Hurricane Maria on Wednesday.
Read moreCanceling a speech on the hurricane that rendered Barbuda uninhabitable for the first time in 300 years, the island’s prime minister Gaston Browne told the United Nations Monday that he was staying home to prepare for another deadly storm on the horizon.
Read moreA South Florida nursing home where eight residents died during a power outage from Hurricane Irma is blaming Florida Power & Light for the tragedy, claiming it failed to respond to reports of an impending medical emergency.
Read morePresident Donald Trump met with federal and state leaders in Florida on Thursday as he surveyed damage from Hurricane Irma and praised the rapid response of the recovery effort.
Read morePresident Donald Trump is going to hear firsthand from people affected by Hurricane Irma as he makes his third visit in less than three weeks to survey storm damage and recovery efforts.
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Texas sued the Bains Brothers gas station chain this week for gouging drivers fleeing Hurricane Harvey, claiming it raised the price at two stores from $2.29 per gallon to $6.99 in a single day.
Read moreHouston garbage collectors are working 16-hour days picking up piles of soggy building materials removed from flooded homes, and the mayor says the process could drag on until Christmas if a tax hike is not approved to pay for more garbage contractors.
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Five people have died at a South Florida nursing home that lost power due to Hurricane Irma. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said three of the deaths took place at the nursing home, while two others occurred as the residents were being transported to a hospital. Sharief said 120 residents of the Hollywood, Fla., facility have been evacuated due to intense heat.
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Nearing the end of a sweeping visit to assess the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma, French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to rebuild the wrecked island of St. Martin and diversify its economy from a sole reliance on tourism.
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Curfews were lifted and Miami International Airport reopened Tuesday as 34,000 workers — 19,000 from Florida Power and Light and 15,000 members of U.S. military services — began the enormous task of repairing and rebuilding Florida from destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma.
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France’s president and the Dutch king visited Caribbean territories on Tuesday that have been hammered by Hurricane Irma, trying to quell accusations by residents that European governments were unprepared, slow to react and sometimes even racist in their responses to the devastation.
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Southern Florida staggered from rescue toward recuperation Tuesday morning as tropical storm Irma bore north, forcing evacuations in coastal Georgia and South Carolina. Florida Power and Light said it has organized the largest restoration brigade ever assembled in the United States: more than 19,000 line workers, arborists and other technicians, though power may not be restored for weeks to all of the more than 6 million Floridians still in the dark.
Read moreAuthorities sent an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships to help with search-and-rescue operations in Florida on Monday as a flyover of the hurricane-battered Keys yielded what the governor said were scenes of devastation.
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Defending its hurricane preparations for the hard-hit Caribbean islands of St. Martin and St. Barts, the French government on Sunday rejected criticism by political opponents and by islanders who felt abandoned as their homes and towns were devastated.
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