Iowa Floods Require Helicopter Evacuations After Extreme Rainfall By Brian Bushard, Former Staff. Brian is a Boston-based Forbes breaking news reporter.

Part of an Iowa town was forced to evacuate due to flooding that prompted a disaster proclamation for more than 20 counties.

At least one person was killed in South Dakota, officials said, as days of heavy rain pushed some rivers to record levels and parts of the Upper Midwest remained under flood warnings on Sunday.

The owner of the water buffalo has surrendered the animal to police and an investigation into how it got loose in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, is being conducted.

Officials confirm one death in Clay County According to the Clay County Sheriff's Office, one person was killed during the historic flooding in northwest Iowa this last weekend. William Schulze ...

Glenwood Springs Fire said the Altitude Apartments complex was evacuated.

Floodwaters surged at the borders of South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota over several days. In northwest Iowa, 13 rivers overflowed, submerging entire neighborhoods and at least one town.

It wouldn't stop raining. Twenty-five years later, that's the most common recollection among those who endured the flood - actually, the floods - of 1993. John Lundell, now the Coralville mayor ...

People fled homes in eastern Nebraska and in Iowa on Wednesday as rising streams spilled into low-lying areas and levees broke. The misery will continue Thursday as more rain falls ...

Also late Wednesday, the Iowa City City Council approved an ordinance that allows the mayor to order evacuations during floods or other emergencies.

Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, had a gloomy message for constituents at a town hall in Butler County, Iowa, on Friday morning: “We all are going to die.” ...

Two wildfires in New Mexico are burning over 80,000 acres, prompting evacuation orders and an emergency response from state officials.