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.

The nonprofit is asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to issue a court order blocking FEMA from enforcing the regulations, claiming local communities will suffer "irreparable harm" because they ...

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 ...