City officials repeatedly have said it would take a decade and likely more to get flood protection in place for the city following its historic 2008 flood on the Cedar River. The timeline forecast now ...

When U.S. homeowners buy subsidized flood insurance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, they make a commitment to build back better after flood disasters, even if it costs them. FEMA’s ...

Calgary has become a model for civic disaster response, though it still needs to make the improvements it was instructed to after the 2005 flood, says a largely upbeat external review of the city’s ...