Faced with abandonment from the state, rural residents built their own fire lines, shelters, and support systems.

The Great Gorge Trail in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, is exactly that kind of pinch-worthy discovery. Tucked away in the Laurel Highlands, this 3.6-mile trail delivers the kind of natural beauty that makes ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before ...

There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in ...

Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had been considered part of a flood-hazard zone.

Reports show 30 Camp Mystic structures were removed from a 100-year National Flood Insurance map repeatedly, loosening camp oversight.