Crews worked to put out a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged four buildings in Seattle’s north Beacon Hill neighborhood early Thursday. Seattle fire said the fire alarm center received a call about a fire at a new construction site at 5:42 a.m.

A bridge near Westphalia collapsed Monday after a semi-trailer attempted to cross. The Pentecostal Bridge, which takes County Road 611 across the Maries River, had a 5-ton weight limit, Osage County Sheriff Micahel Bonham said.

It’s one storm after another for the cyber insurance market. Five years ago, the biggest concern for cyber insurers was the protection and security of payment card industry (PCI) data.

More than 8.5 billion records were compromised in data breaches in the span of one year ending April 2020, and the average cost of a mega-sized data breach was $3.86 million, a new report by IBM has found.

A train fire and derailment caused a partial collapse of a railroad bridge over Tempe Town Lake. The incident occurred around 6 a.m. Wednesday on the south side of the lake near Mill Avenue.

A small plane crashed in a suburban Salt Lake City neighborhood, killing at least three people, police said. The crash happened Saturday afternoon when a Piper PA-32 aircraft carrying six people crashed into a backyard in the city of West Jordan, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer said.

Opportunities for insurance in the e-sports space has grown to a point where it can’t be ignored, says an industry observer. Video gaming is at an all-time high during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to information collected by data and measurement firm Neilsen.

On the day before the July 4 holiday weekend, Mount Auburn Hospital’s information technology team identified some unusual activity. Alarmed, they quickly took steps to disconnect the Cambridge hospital’s computer system from the internet.

Several women who claim they were sexually abused by disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein are pleading with a US judge to reject an $18.9 million settlement with the former entertainment mogul, fearing that the deal would prevent the defendants’ insurers from making bigger payouts.

It will take several days to clean up a big mess left behind by a runaway tanker that ended up in a resident’s backyard. But Salt Lake fire officials say they are very grateful no one was injured in the Wednesday morning incident.

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office confirmed two people died in a plane collision over Lake Coeur d’Alene on Sunday afternoon, and as many as eight people may have been onboard the two aircraft.

A severe thunderstorm that blasted through west Texas on Tuesday was so powerful that it caused dozens of freight train cars to derail, according to officials.

The scenes from May 30 looked like they had been plucked out of the 1960s. News networks alternated between covering nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was allegedly killed by a police officer while in custody, and SpaceX’s first crewed launch to the international space station.

Intact Financial Corp. is likely to pay out more than $80 million for commercial claims arising directly from the COVID-19 pandemic, but has only seen a small fraction of that so far, CEO Charles Brindamour said Wednesday.

The key selling point for cyber insurance has evolved over recent years as cyberattacks have become more prominent. Several years ago, cyber insurance was important because of data breach concerns and protecting organizations’ liability if private data was exposed. Today, the focus is on the potentially huge losses stemming from cybercrime.