disaster planning and response

The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest (all times local): 1:30 p.m. Authorities have recovered the body of a second teenager who was in a ...

KINCAID, Ill. (AP) — The Mississippi River and many of its tributaries continued their retreat Sunday from historic and deadly winter flooding, leavin...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Surging Midwestern rivers forced hundreds of evacuations, threatened dozens of levees and brought transportation by car, boat or trai...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron sent hundreds more troops into northern England on Sunday to help exhausted residents and emergency...

BEIJING (AP) — The owner of a Chinese gypsum mine drowned Sunday after jumping into a well in an apparent suicide during rescue efforts for 17 workers...

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — Fire crews have stopped the spread of a wind-whipped wildfire along the Southern California coast, reopened a scenic highway an...

Dozens of people lost their homes, yet they say they are thankful to see another Christmas. Tony Goodwin ducked into a storm shelter with seven others...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A day after deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, Hillary Rodham Clinton cast herself as the country's strongest commander in chi...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Bracing for a tsunami like the one that devastated Japanese communities during a 2011 mega-earthquake, coastal communities from ...

MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — As the death toll in the massive earthquake that struck the remote Hindu Kush mountains soared above 300, officials on both s...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's vice president told The Associated Press on Sunday his country is preparing for a "tsunami" of foreign tourists as Iran and...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu weakened after blowing ashore with fierce winds in the northeastern Philippines on Sunday, leavin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina's congressional delegation is vowing to make sure the state gets federal help to recover from the historic flooding f...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The latest on the rainstorm that pounded parts of the East Coast (all times local): 3:30 p.m. The South Carolina National Guard ...

CAMERON, La. (AP) — Vacant slabs, weed-choked lots and solitary stairs to nowhere permeate this tiny town in southwest Louisiana. All that remains of ...

ILLAPEL, Chile (AP) — Thousands of residents of this small city in northern Chile slept outside Thursday after a powerful earthquake destroyed their h...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former President George W. Bush returned Friday to New Orleans — the scene of one of his presidency's lowest points — to tout the r...

HOUSTON (AP) — Bunk beds dominate the narrow living room of Chevelle Washington's modest three-bedroom brick townhouse apartment. A large box in the c...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — All of Florida is carefully watching Tropical Storm Erika as the disorganized system makes its way over Hispaniola. Foreca...

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has declared the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands a disaster area and is ordering federal aid to he...