Escondido is updating its building codes to reflect a new fire hazard severity zone map released by the California State Fire ...

In Corvallis, that means 8,945 new homes by 2036 in the area stretching 1.8 miles and 204 acres along Ninth Street between Northwest Polk and Walnut avenues. These would be mostly townhomes with a ...

With the push to build more homes amidst the housing affordability crisis, municipalities may not be equipped to build homes out of harms way from flood zones. And with the threat of increased ...

A wildfire mapping workshop was held at Atascadero City Hall on Wednesday to help residents better understand local wildfire ...

Judging by the last few summers, Rio de Janeiro’s residents should be preparing for the worst. On March 17, 2024, the ...

Every rainy season in Trinidad and Tobago brings a familiar and painful routine—flooded homes, stranded motorists, devastated ...

The maps may mean some local homeowners face new regulations and will require "a huge" transition for the Ventura County Fire Department, said Joe Morelli, the county's fire marshal. Among the changes ...

While heatwaves affect everyone, it is India’s millions of urban informal workers who are bearing the brunt of this ...

Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could ...

Homeowners insurance is getting more expensive and harder to keep. Lawmakers in our region introduced more than a dozen ...

A new study of the 28 most populous U.S. cities finds that all are sinking to one degree or another. The cities include not ...

Community members are invited to provide feedback on the "Pier Avenue Corridor Plan" in Oceano. The stretch of road provides ...