Over 180,000 residents were ordered to evacuate the area due to the possibility of failure of the alternate spillway at Oroville Dam. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said during a news conference Sunday night that he had no choice but to order the evacuation. You ...

Roads leading out of Oroville, Calif., were jammed with traffic Sunday evening as more than 130,000 people were ordered to evacuate the area due to the possibility of failure of the alternate spillway at Oroville Dam, authorities said, USA Today reports. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea ...

There are 78 flood warnings, 80 flood alerts and a further seven severe flood warnings in place for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as heavy snow and hurricane-force winds of 80 ...

As CTVNews reports, the northern Alberta town, which is Canada’s oilsands capital, was caught off guard by a quick-spreading conflagration on Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon, more than 80,000 people had heeded a mandatory evacuation order, and tens of thousands were ...