The Misleading Name That Confuses Millions The term "100-year flood" sounds like a once-in-a-century event, doesn't it?

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Jan 6 (Reuters) - The euro zone economy expanded at a slower pace last month but ended 2025 with its strongest quarterly growth in more than two years as solid momentum in services offset a ...

A new study finds that many homeowners face a higher flood risk than they expect. It’s a prospect that raises questions about the accuracy of government flood maps that determine insurance coverage, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) has announced several initiatives that aim to benefit 2026 Toyota bZ battery electric vehicle (BEV) drivers as the vehicle begins arriving at dealers nationwide this ...

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 ...