FARGO, N.D. — Officials ordered the evacuation of one Fargo neighborhood and a nursing home late Thursday after authorities found cracks in an e...
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 01.28.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Midwesterners got ready for the possibility of flooding Sunday as runoff from heavy rain and melting snowbanks bloated streams, and hi...
Chicago Public Radio | Mike Rhee | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago
Some residents in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood might not be taking advantage of federal flood assistance. Officials are especially concerned und...
Ari Bendersky | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago
News reports and official city press conferences tell one side of the story. Hearing first hand accounts from residents you learn a different side.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
What happened in New Orleans, and what is happening today in the heartland, is the result of a massive infrastructure failure and the siphoning of tax resources into the war economy.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media
Jon Stewart mocked the media's coverage of the Midwest floods on Wednesday night's "Daily Show." He cataloged the media's attempt to characterize the...
David Kotok | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business
The Fed normally does not raise interest rates preceding a national election. This time they are a beleaguered body and threatened by politics unlike in any recent period of history.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — The federal government predicts that 27 levees could potentially overflow along the Mississippi River if the weather forecast is on...
AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Corn prices reached another record Monday, closing in on $8 a bushel, as devastating Midwest floods raised fears of a sharply smaller...
AP | BETSY TAYLOR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
PIEDMONT, Mo. — Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and fled Wednesday after as much as a foot of rain pushed ri...
AP | NATE JENKINS and DAVE KOLPACK | Posted 04.26.2009 | Home