Flood insurance mandates loom for Harris County residents who fall in updated FEMA flood zones, though official maps have ...

Hurricane Harvey ... billion in damage along with 22 deaths from that storm. Since then, heavy rainstorms have continued to demonstrate Houston's vulnerability to heavy rains. A flood event ...

I’m one of the many laid-off federal employees who worked to prevent, predict, and repair hurricane damage — and I fear for ...

The International Code Council has approved stronger building codes to protect hospitals, schools and other structures from ...

Friendswood city officials have formerly endorsed the second phase of a regional flood mitigation initiative to address ...

Cities including Seattle, San Diego, and Chicago are all sinking, a new study found.

Even slow-moving, weak tropical storms can produce devastating flooding. With Harvey ... $9 billion in damage and killed 41 people. Though most people think of wind as a hurricane's greatest ...

Fischetti had unwittingly waded into one of the murkiest secrets in the Florida real estate market: The rules and laws surrounding disclosure of previous flooding — a growing risk driven by rising ...

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...