The Westlake City School District, through less than half of winter, has already declared five calamity days as of Jan. 27.

Investing in pre-disaster mitigation can save taxpayers billions of dollars by reducing the cost of recovery from natural disasters, while also providing strong protections to vulnerable local ...

In May, floods devastated small towns in Maryland’s Allegany and Garrett counties. Roads collapsed. Homes flooded. Schoolchildren had to be ferried to safety. Last November, a bomb cyclone tore across ...