Pete Jensen has spent a long career in emergency management, including responding to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack. He served as an official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency during ...

Three people arrived at Daniel Olivas’ home in Guadalupe Street in Kerrville last week with a skid steer and an excavator to ...

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill reveals that repetitive flooding in North Carolina is far more common and more widespread ...

These events damage homes and businesses, raise insurance costs, and endanger lives. Emergency crews respond as '1,000-year' flood devastates North Carolina first appeared on The Cool Down.

The National Weather Service in Raleigh has issued a flash flood warning for Chantal-drenched southeastern Orange County ...