Mandatory Evacuations News Today

Mandatory evacuations were ordered in parts of Texas, and residents in Harris County, home to Houston, were told to be ready to stay put for days after heavy rain caused flooding.

In Texas, county judges are tasked with emergency management decisions, including declaring an emergency -- which is allowed under Texas law chapter 418, according to Travis County Judge Andy Brown.

Four wildfires have burned more than 140,000 acres in the Texas Panhandle since Monday.

The Coordination Headquarters has decided to conduct mandatory evacuations in nine villages in the Marinka and Ocheretyne hromadas, Donetsk Oblast. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories.

Here's an update of what we know about the flooding situation in Norwich caused by the breach in the Fitchville Pond Dam.

Firefighters are responding to a vegetation fire in the area of Highway 94 at the 13000 block of Vista Sage Lane in Jamul.

A multiyear battle over whether Southern Nevadans should pay for natural disaster protection work in Northern Nevada raises an increasingly pressing public policy question: Are natural disasters statewide or local issues?

At least one person was injured after Russian forces struck the village of Nova Hnylytsia in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast with cluster munitions, Regional Military Administration head, Oleh Synehubov, reported on Telegram on Sep. 6.

St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport is closing Tuesday at 3 p.m. ahead of Tropical Storm Idalia, the airport said in a statement Monday. Idalia is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane and hit Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Pinellas County issued mandatory evacuations for Zone A, where the airport is located, and for residents in ...

Authorities issued a mandatory evacuation for the entire town of Merryville, Louisiana, on Thursday in advance of an approaching wildfire expected to reach the town limits by the evening.