FEMA flood insurance

Mayors along the Mississippi River have watched for years as intensifying rain storms and flooding wreak havoc on their communities.

After big floods like those in 2016 that inundated many homes in the Baton Rouge-area and beyond, sometimes a home buyout is the right choice. People…

It’s Friday and time for the Coastal News Roundup - this week, a look at how changes to the National Flood Insurance Program could impact…

Properties that flood over and over again are a longstanding problem for FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program. Around 30,000 of the most…

Orleans Parish is seeing its flood maps updated for the first time since 1984 today. More than half of the city is moving out of the so-called “high risk”…