Luzerne County’s Flood Protection Authority held a special meeting Thursday to unanimously approve the first step in fixing erosion that is creeping toward part of the Wyoming Valley Levee system ...

LONDON (AP) — A former British paratrooper was found not guilty Thursday on murder charges relating to the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland that saw 13 people killed in a flurry of ...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa dumped heavy rain on Hispaniola as forecasters warned Wednesday of a significant flood risk in parts of the Caribbean region in the coming days. The rains snarled ...

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Erosion inching toward part of the Wyoming Valley Levee system flood wall along Riverside Drive in Wilkes-Barre is concerning enough to seek an immediate outside engineer assessment, Luzerne County’s ...

Aerial footage captured in Kwigillingok, Alaska shows the devastation wrought by former typhoon Halong as it passed through the region on October 11 and 12. As of October 17, the area is still covered ...

Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant ...

New things are popping up at both of the Stegmaier mansions on South Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre. The upscale restaurant that opened in June in the Mary Stegmaier mansion is scheduling special ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. On the ...