On average, it takes five to seven years to develop and implement a new FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map. As a result, many maps across the U.S. are significantly out of date, often failing to reflect ...

For months, President Donald Trump and his administration have floated the idea of doing away with the Federal Emergency ...

Destructive flash flooding in Texas and other states is raising questions about the nation's flood maps and their ability to ensure that ...

Local officials were repeatedly denied state funding for emergency flood warning system at Camp Mystic site but didn’t deploy Amber Alert-style warning according to report ...

President Donald Trump was on stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds earlier this month, kicking off the country's 250th ...

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Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and ...

For Assm. Heidi Kasama (R-Las Vegas), delayed insurance approvals for health care treatment aren’t just something she hears ...

It started with a scream. 30,000 feet above the Arabian Sea, a cabin on an international flight plunged into chaos. Flight AI-129 was barely halfway to New York ...

Just days into his second term, President Trump said he was going to recommend that the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

President Donald Trump issued a provocative threat during a Cabinet meeting this week: If New York City elects a “communist” ...

Even at the dear cost of 43 lives, the Oso disaster helped galvanize a response that is now making communities safer from landslides. If the tragic Texas Hill Country floods can result in long-needed ...