New Orleans ranks as the worst U.S. city for flood risk. Learn why, what it means for homebuyers, and how to protect your new home with flood insurance and other options.

Newton’s Zoning and Planning Committee passed new rules for defining floodplains to comply with FEMA requirements in its meeting on Monday.

Yonder covers tribal and rural communities on the coast of the Pacific Northwest that are taking action to survive ...

Trump’s first week in office has been a clinic in how to flood the zone with actions and statements that outrage the opposition and make it difficult for the public, press or Democrats to focus on any ...

Almost 200 flood alerts and warnings have been issued across the UK as Storm Herminia continues to batter parts of the country. It comes after more than 100 people were evacuated following ...

Hughes Fire map shows evacuation zones in Castaic Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A freighter was on its way to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Manitoulin ...

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Waynesville town leaders are considering a proposal to protect new construction in flood zones by raising ... under 2012 flood maps and leaders say much has changed ...

Within a half-hour of a fire igniting on an Eaton Canyon hillside in the afternoon of Jan. 7, thousands of residents’ phones buzzed in eastern Altadena with a warning from Los Angeles County ...

Rescuers search for victims near the wreckages of vehicles in an area affected by a landslide following a flash flood that killed multiple people in Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan.