Like your health, your pets or your car, your home requires regular maintenance to keep it running smoothly and working properly. Homes that are well-maintained are safer, require fewer costly repairs and retain more of their value.

A man now serving a four-to-five year state prison term for burning down his Swampscott home three years ago is now facing a lawsuit from his former insurance company.

As water inched higher and higher into Nicole and Chris Yarbrough’s home Wednesday night, they grabbed their pets and headed for the attic.

Authorities say a massive gas pipeline explosion has rocked Lincoln County, Kentucky early Thursday morning, killing at least one female, injuring five and leaving several unaccounted for.

An elderly couple whose house in the Grace Chapel area was destroyed by a tornado in 2017 say that their insurance company has refused to pay for much of the damage.

Human remains were discovered by an insurance adjuster on Tuesday at a house where Charlotte firefighters doused a major fire on Saturday, police said.

Major Hurricane Erick and Tropical Storm Flossie will pose a dual threat to the Hawaiian Islands beginning during the middle of this week and continuing into early next week.

A "large bird" that made contact with a power line caught fire, fell on dry grass and ignited a blaze that scorched 156 acres in Chino Hills and burned a two-story home, authorities said on Monday.

It’s been nine months since Hurricane Michael devastated the Florida Panhandle. But insurance companies still have yet to pay out more than 21,000 claims, state officials say.

Multiple crews have spent nearly 12 hours battling a large fire at Churchill Center in Penn Hills. The fire broke out Sunday night. Heavy smoke and flames could be seen coming from the businesses in the plaza.

It was a miracle. The Santa Rosa family home of Howard Booster survived the raging flame front that devoured nearly his entire neighborhood at about 4 a.m. on October 9, 2017, amid the Tubbs Fire, among the deadliest and most devastating infernos in California history.

The state D.O.I. published a new report showing the lack of high-magnitude tremor readiness.

Power is expected to be restored for most on Cape Cod by Friday evening after a tornado tore through the region.

Hurricane Barry has come and gone, and while the first hurricane to make landfall in the US this season didn’t wreak as much havoc as expected, there are still other storms slated to appear in the summer and fall.

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