Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 7—GORDON — About 20 people attended a presentation on an updated floodplain map for the borough that adds their properties.

Talk to any scientist long enough, and eventually they’ll bring up an old aphorism: all models are wrong, but some are useful. Even with better data, and more sophisticated tools to collect it, ...

LA GRANDE — The La Grande City Council considered updates to the city’s floodplain map at its special session on Monday, June 14, and voted to send the map to the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

MANKATO — Several homes in Blue Earth County will be moved out of the new Federal Emergency Management Agency floodplain map and a few new ones will go in. The county is wrapping up review of a new ...

Are enough Hoosiers up to date on statewide floodplain mapping? How are landowners being notified about changes to those maps? And should property owners have more say, overall, in what areas are ...

The new map shows an expanded proposed Base Flood Elevation or BFE, which shows the 1 percent annual chance of flooding. It has also been called the 100-year floodplain. The BFEs are required for ...

Residents and business owners in Palmer Lake and Butler Canyon are expected to save big bucks now that they no longer reside in a designated flood hazard area. The Pikes Peak Regional Building ...

(TNS) - As Missoula County's floodplain map gets updated with new data for the first time in decades, some residents are concerned that the government has overstepped its bounds. FEMA has been working ...

GORDON – About 20 people attended a presentation on an updated floodplain map for the borough that adds their properties. The borough council held the presentation, also covering the need to obtain ...

Multiple lawmakers on the Indiana Drainage Task Force expressed concerns on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, about the accuracy of the state’s floodplain maps and said they now support a more robust system ...