Hurricane Hanna spared insurers potential massive losses by making a landfall Saturday on a rural area of the Texas coast,...
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U.S. protection of wetlands has expanded and contracted dramatically over the last five years, as Democratic and Republican administrations rewrote...
Washington is announcing a goal of retrofitting or removing all of its flood-prone buildings by 2050, the first major U.S....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Years of increasingly deadly California wildfires spurred lawmakers to consider regulations Tuesday that would toughen local governments’...
About the photo: The sun rises through a cloud of smoke after a wildfire swept through the area in Sonoma...
Seven weeks after a massive earthquake rocked Alaska, aftershocks are still shattering 7-year-old Connor Cartwright’s sense of safety. They shake...
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rattled Alaska’s largest city cracked roads and collapsed highway ramps, but there were no reports...
Unlike in South Florida, homes in the state’s Panhandle did not have tighter building codes until just 11 years ago;...
Five years ago, encouraged by home builders and an anti-regulatory zeal, lawmakers in North Carolina joined other states in weakening...
A Michigan family is fighting with city officials over the legality of a large wooden treehouse. A judge has instructed...