California's Capitol is virtually shut down for the year, freeing up Sacramento leaders to shift their attention, for now, from the state's fiscal crisis to another type of threat: flooding. While the ...

The new maps mean flood insurance for these areas is optional. But with half the city at or below sea level and memories of post-Hurricane Katrina... New Maps Label Much Of New Orleans Out Of Flood ...

For years, David Waggonner designed courthouses and other public buildings at his architectural practice, Waggonner & Ball, in New Orleans. Then Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, and Waggonner became ...

A team from URI's Coastal Resilience Lab and Graduate School of Oceanography deployed exercises to evaluate storm decision ...