As water demands grow, a controversial push to resurrect a failed dam project divides the Columbia community. Critics say the ...

The term "100-year flood" is often misunderstood—many believe it means a flood that happens once every 100 years, but that’s not how probability works. Instead, it refers to a flood that has a 1% ...

Residents learned about FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program and picked up free sandbags and weather alert radios at a ...

The Waco City Council on Tuesday reviewed a newly redrawn federal flood risk map for Waco that was born from years of hydrologic studies of local waterways. The results, which have been accepted ...

On June 13, 2008, the Cedar River crested to a historic 31.12 feet, 11 feet higher than the river had gone before. Seventeen years later, Cedar Rapids is more t ...

But while two feet may feel far off, experts say the impacts of rising tides and extreme rainfall are being felt now. The ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

The Stillwater River’s fishery has been sampled three falls since the June 2022 flood, which peaked at a historic high – 10.49 feet – classified as a once in 500-year flood. That was ...

“So the decision is being made that you know with a thousand-year flood, with climate change and all that kind of stuff, it’ll happen again in another generation, maybe next year, and so we are not ...