Kent County advances a $2.9M plan to address Dean Lake flooding, but residents express concerns over costs. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A $2.9 million plan to manage flooding at Dean Lake is moving forward, ...

Floodplain buyouts can reduce the financial toll of future disasters. But some small towns losing property and people are now ...

While I appreciate board efforts to address enrollment and budget challenges, the current plan, which involves centralizing elementary education at Manchester Elementary Middle School and shifting ...

As climate change worsens around the world, so does the most frequent and costly natural disaster in Wisconsin: flooding.

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council says a new plan to manage the Wairoa River bar is a proactive approach to managing flood risks and will improve resilience for the Wairoa community in flood events.

The plan also would preserve existing swamps to maintain flood storage, restore the upper Amite to its more natural, winding flow after sand-and-gravel mining has straightened the route over the ...

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. – The city of Fernandina Beach is developing a Flood Adaptation Plan to protect the community from tidal flooding, storm surge, rainfall, and sea level rise. And they want ...

Wylie Wilson will help identify flood-prone areas within the city’s limits. “So, ultimately, this plan will give us a better idea of what sort of flooding threats the city as a whole faces ...

The state already has set limits on the ability of local governments to put new restrictions on building in floodplains. Rebuilding in a floodplain after a “historic flood event” would become ...

Greenberg announced an action plan on Friday to remove debris and restore flood-damaged roads, parks and other areas of the city. Work is expected to begin this weekend in east, west and southwest ...

New York City officials seeking new ways to lock up funding for the many infrastructure projects needed to protect the city from flooding are offering a four-point plan to City Hall on Monday.