Skip to content
Hugin

The archive

Search the record.

Reporting, commentary and the evidence behind the story.

Published records

97–98 of 98 matches

  1. News

    Maine's federal commercial summer flounder landings close October 13 after the state quota is harvested

    …short timing makes the effective date consequential for permit holders. Publication on October 13 and effectiveness at the start of that day are distinct facts; this is not a proposal waiting for a future…

    Read record summary

    NMFS says Maine's 2026 commercial summer flounder quota has been harvested. Its temporary rule closes landings in Maine by federally permitted commercial vessels from 0001 hours October 13 through December 31, unless a quota transfer makes more available. The action concerns a particular commercial fishery and landing state; it is not a nationwide flounder ban or a finding that seafood already sold is unsafe.

    Matched in article text

  2. News

    GAO finds 86% of high-risk U.S. properties have no NFIP flood insurance, and says each fix it identifies would need an act of Congress

    …authority from Congress. How GAO counted GAO matched NFIP policy records to flood scores from First Street, a private risk-modeling company that rates a property 1 to 10 on the likelihood and projected…

    Read record summary

    GAO's October 1 report to Congress finds 86 percent of U.S. properties it classifies as high flood risk carried no National Flood Insurance Program coverage as of April 2026, and estimates about 13 million such properties sit outside the FEMA zones that trigger the mandatory-purchase rule. Price, that narrow rule, and misreadings of what is covered all hold purchases down, GAO reports. It asks Congress, not FEMA, to consider widening the rule, publishing flood-risk data, requiring lender quotes, and raising coverage limits; one of five agencies that received the draft partly disagreed.

    Matched in article text

Searching scanner reports… Published results are ready above.