According to FEMA, it typically takes up to 30 days for a policy to go into effect, so keep that in mind as you prepare for ...

Imagine a Florida panther slinking its way 400 miles (645 kilometers) from the Big Cypress Swamp, in the southwest part of ...

Florida’s House of Representatives attached a proposal to again make attorneys fees available to plaintiffs, and their ...

Imagine a Florida panther slinking its way 400 miles (645 kilometers) from the Big Cypress Swamp, in the southwest part of ...

The proposal by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an insulting waste of time — at best.

On the night Milton struck, she says her home flooded in the span of forty-five minutes despite not being in a flood zone. Now she’s fearful that it could happen again due to the Cambridge Pump ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Marilyn Mendez Arnett lives in an area of Tampa currently considered a ‘non-flood zone’ by FEMA, but that could change as the federal agency reports flood maps are under ...

Those policies, and how much you pay for them, are based on FEMA’s well-known flood maps. Periodically updated — revised ones for Miami-Dade are due this summer — the maps divide counties ...

For decades, Florida home buyers have relied on the honor system — or lawsuits — to ensure the house they bought didn’t have a secret history of floods. That could change this year, if Gov.

Fischetti had unwittingly waded into one of the murkiest secrets in the Florida real estate market: The rules and laws ...