Californians lobbied Congress to turn the Yosemite Valley into federally protected land in the late 1800s; it became a model for the National Park System, which was established in 1916. Arthur ...

Former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, who served under Mr Johnson, defected to Reform on Friday and urged both men to come ...

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Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast 20 years ago, causing widespread destruction and displacing over a million people.

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Torrential rainfall has left at least 34 people dead in Pakistan and India and triggered flash floods and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Over 210,000 people in Pakistan have been displaced, ...

Officials knew lethal flooding could happen if a major hurricane hit Hurricane Katrina ranks among the deadliest floods in U.S. history. But it was a disaster that many had long feared and predicted.

This dreary photograph was one of many taken by Frank Finch during the 1913 flood in Fremont. The water was still high all the way up East State Street to the corner of Sandusky Avenue. This ...