The Blue Acres program has helped hundreds of homeowners leave flood-prone properties, turning vulnerable land into open ...

In a state beset by sea level rise and flooding, the Blue Acres program has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties that ...

Cal's Books, Redding's beloved used book store, is closing due to damages from the recent flooding. Darol Anger, an ...

Esco Bell walked the length of Mount Vernon’s 1.7-mile floodwall just after midnight on Friday, watching the water creep up to the brim of the only barrier separating the surging Skagit River from the ...

While the Flood has never reached that same level of prominence in subsequent entries in the series, that’s not to say they’re gone for good. The franchise has even set up potential ways to bring the ...

Making and maintaining an accurate flood map is neither simple nor inexpensive. Even after an investment of more than $1 billion to take flood maps into the digital world, only 21 percent of the ...

A flood watch will go into place late Wednesday night for portions of South-Central Texas as rain moves through the area. Newsweek reached out to the National Weather Service (NWS) via email for ...

After years of back and forth, new flood maps with major implications for property owners’ land values, insurance rates and building costs along a watershed stretching from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park ...

Federal flood maps for New Hampshire — which determine, among other things, cost and availability of flood insurance — are being upgraded. That makes sense because scientific models of possible ...

Several flood gates in Hoboken designed to block traffic from using flooded streets failed to operate during an Oct. 30 severe rainstorm, officials said. Hoboken’s Office of Emergency Management ...

The National Flood Insurance Program expired, leaving homeowners unable to renew or purchase new policies during the government shutdown. A proposed bill would reauthorize the program for five years ...

Some people who live in New Jersey's flood-prone areas are "in harm's way" as the government shutdown carries on, according to Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., who is pushing for Congress to reauthorize the ...