The disaster management agency will no longer enforce an Obama-era rule requiring federally funded disaster rebuilds to ...

The one municipality that is — the city of Asheville — has sought to shore up development ordinances to stay in the program ...

This current rain event is expected to bring 'generational flooding', which only happens once a generation. But memories of 2010 flood still plague some.

A press release from FEMA, issued in late March, says the move will speed up the pace of recovery from storms and disasters like Hurricane Helene ... The floodplain rules come from the federal ...