On average, it takes five to seven years to develop and implement a new FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map. As a result, many maps across the U.S. are significantly out of date, often failing to reflect ...

Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths ...

Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are ...

Many people in the United States receive little or no information about flood risk when they move into a new home or ...

Kerr County failed to use alarm system ahead of flooding that’s killed at least 121, report - Local officials were repeatedly denied state funding for emergency flood warning system at Camp Mystic sit ...

A drastic increase in unregulated production of rare earth minerals in Myanmar is causing serious environmental concerns ...

Officials criticized the Trump administration for cutting funding to programs that provide meteorological data.

CNBC scored states across 135 metrics to assess where businesses are likely to find favorable conditions for success.

Over a third of the United States federal government's revenue comes from the country's four most-populous states, but they often get back less than they contribute. Known as "donor states," 19 states ...

From workforce shortages to cyberthreats, state and local government IT leaders face unprecedented political and technological forces. Across the political spectrum, state and local government leaders ...

New Jersey Treasury officials say the State Health Benefits Program is facing dire structural and financial challenges.

It’s not just federal employees or beneficiaries who will suffer from all the pain and chaos. Medicaid cuts in particular will hit states hard.