Refugio County commissioners on Tuesday heard a proposal from the Nueces River Authority to join a multi-county effort to modernize floodplain maps and improve regional flood modeling, but the court ...

Making and maintaining an accurate flood map is neither simple nor inexpensive. Even after an investment of more than $1 billion to take flood maps into the digital world, only 21 percent of the ...

A panel of federal judges upheld North Carolina’s 2023 congressional map Thursday as the judges continue mulling the legality of the state’s mid-decade redistricting push. The panel has not yet ruled ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. A panel of federal judges rejected a gerrymandering challenge to North Carolina electoral maps used in the 2024 election, but did not ...

In the Floods of Trouble series, the Miami Herald mapped flood complaints across Miami-Dade and Broward counties, explaining how nearly every corner of South Florida has experienced some kind of water ...

Flooding doesn’t stop at city limits. The data meant to track it often does. That simple mismatch — between where water goes and how governments measure it — has long left South Florida with an ...

Shirley Howard’s Chicago neighborhood has flooded three times in the last 30 years. But Howard’s mortgage lender never suggested flood insurance. The government says she doesn’t need it. “That is what ...

DNR reverts floodplain map for Washington County after a TMJ4 news report. Senator Graham Stops Repeal of Payout That May Reap Him Millions Kevin Spacey says 'I literally have no home,' is working as ...

Residents whose Hamilton County properties are included in new, more restrictive floodplain maps are being encouraged to contact a flood insurance agent. To view the Effective maps (current, until ...

Next school year, the School District of Manatee County will have new attendance zone maps for elementary and middle schools, meaning some students may need to change schools. Lake Manatee K-8, which ...

One fast-growing area is determining how to educate all of its students. Madison City Superintendent Dr. Ed Nichols said the system needs to accommodate approximately 350 new students who start in ...

San Diego County saw a nearly 9% decrease in acreage with “very high” fire hazard compared to 2011, Cal Fire reported this week in a release of new maps for areas under local and county fire agency ...