Flood Insurance Costs Rise in Areas Once Deemed Lower Risk December 9, 2021 By Suman Naishadham and Michael Phillis WASHINGTON (AP) –In the past year, the southwestern Louisiana city of Lake Charles weathered two hurricanes, intense rainfall that sent...
Realtors: FEMA’s New Flood Insurance Pricing Looks Promising November 8, 2021 By Rachel Sawicki DOVER, Del. (AP) — Cyndee Hayden lost everything in a house fire in Philadelphia nearly 30 years ago. Her saving...
Edwards: Ida Temporary Trailer Program Ramps Up in Louisiana October 29, 2021 By Melinda Deslatte BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s temporary housing program for people displaced by Hurricane Ida is increasing its pace of...
Analysis: Louisiana Braces For Flood Insurance Sticker Shock October 4, 2021 By Melinda Deslatte BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Louisiana homeowners, many of them still digging out of Hurricane Ida’s...
Flooded Tennessee Town Wrestles With How, Where to Rebuild October 4, 2021 By Jonathan Mattise and Travis Loller WAVERLY, Tenn. (AP) — In the 100 years that Jim Traylor’s family had lived in his house in rural Waverly,...
New Jersey Weighs Expanding Flood Buyback Program After Ida September 27, 2021 By Mike Catalini TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Liz Sawyer called Manville, New Jersey, home for more than two decades when Ida became the...
Ida Knocks Out Power to Nearly All of Louisiana, More Deaths Feared August 30, 2021 By Devika Krishna Kumar and Maria Caspani NEW ORLEANS — At least one person has died and power is out across Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday as...
U.S. Rolls Out First Update to Flood Insurance Pricing in 50 Years April 6, 2021 By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK — Hundreds of thousands of Americans will pay significantly more to insure their homes in coastal areas and...
Pandemic Aid Helps New Mexico Tribe Fix Damaged Adobe Homes April 5, 2021 By Teya Vitu SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — First came the hail — sheets of it, pounding the centuries-old adobe homes at...
Cedar Rapids, Marion Seek Federal Aid for Waterway Cleanup April 5, 2021 By Gage Miskimen and Marissa Payne CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Cedar Rapids and Marion are pursuing federal assistance to help pay for millions of dollars...