A line on a Georgetown county map may affect current and future homeowners when disaster strikes. It's called the coastal "A" zone and it's traced in certain parts of the county. Limited to ...

Construction costs in Midtown likely will jump now that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has updated its flood zone maps, raising the required ground elevations for future construction.

FEMA was required to consult with the National Marine Fisheries Service after conservation groups filed suit in 2009 over the agency’s failure to consider how its implementation of the insurance ...