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Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara unveils a plan to shore up the California insurance market for homeowners. Insurers would return to wildfire zones, but would have an easier path to rate increases.
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To prevent flooding, communities often raise levees next to rivers higher and higher. Now, a new approach is about backing off, moving levees away from rivers to create floodplains.
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King tides arrive this Friday at the Oregon Coast, and researchers are seeking photos from onlookers to better understand sea-level rise as climate change worsens.
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The precipitation is desperately needed to combat California's severe drought. But it comes with a trade-off in communities that endured wildfires. Heavy rain and snowfall means an increased chance of mudslides, rockslides and flash-flooding.
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A category 5 atmospheric river is hitting Northern California, bringing historic rains and causing flooding, power outages and ash and debris flows in wildfire burn scars.
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Flooding was reported across the San Francisco Bay Area while the National Weather Service's Sacramento office warned of "potentially historic rain."
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The smoke-filled summers are a recent addition to the region, for most of us. But disasters like fires and floods are common through the years of recorded…
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In 1906, stage driver Frank Reid was moving in a downpour toward Lakeview, Ore. Just as he headed downhill into a narrow canyon between steep hills on…