OLYPHANT — Standing in front of a pit on Lackawanna Avenue where he hopes to invest nearly $2 million into storefronts and apartments, developer John Wilkens lamented the impact of a longtime flood ...

The NWS issued a Flood Watch for parts of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania due to anticipated heavy rainfall.

Between 1980 and July, 2024, New Jersey had 12 tropical storms that caused between $50 billion and $100 billion in damages, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

But many New Jersey property owners didn't have a choice. If their homes were heavily damaged by Sandy, they had to raise their homes to meet newer flood zone standards .

In places like coastal New Jersey, sea levels are rising and the land is sinking. The safest option is to move people out of the riskiest flood zones, experts say. But that's not always practical. In ...

An environmental group wants Gov. Phil Murphy to move on new state rules to put new construction above flood waters. Cape officials continue the fight against them.

The report forecasts that by 2050, 1 in 6 parcels of land in New Jersey, or 565,000, will be exposed to major flood risk. Those properties are worth $436 billion in today’s dollars, and they ...