Twenty years out from the New Orleans disaster, the city’s levee and flood wall system must be raised or the region could become ineligible for federal flood insurance. NEW ORLEANS — Two things are ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to begin fixing the breaches in the levees in Hidalgo County that were caused by border wall construction. The news came ...

For emergency preparedness, Scranton will test its Lackawanna River flood protection systems of levee wall closures and warning sirens Friday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. According to a city announcement ...

Most people don’t think about levees and floodwalls. Most people can drive past them every day never realizing what they are—just a long stretch of raised ground, maybe a concrete wall, maybe ...

Former Board President Roy Carubba resigned last week and Police Chief Joshua Rondeno has been placed on administrative leave ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Drive across the top of the levee; come back along the levee’s “toe” slope; pause when a flood wall or obstruction crosses the levee; move to the next ...

SEATTLE — Record-breaking flooding has led to continuous monitoring of critical levees in the area, including the White, Green, and Cedar River levees. The Washington National Guard, along with ...

Erosion inching toward part of the Wyoming Valley Levee system flood wall along Riverside Drive in Wilkes-Barre is concerning enough to seek an immediate outside engineer assessment, Luzerne County’s ...

The swollen and debris-filled Green River tore a hole Monday in a heavily saturated and previously damaged section of King County’s levee system near Tukwila, forcing broad evacuations and emergency ...

The fourth in a series of five stories examining the major tidal flooding this month in Marin. For the residents of the Santa Venetia neighborhood in San Rafael, the torrential rains following New ...

River levees across Washington state are at risk of “major damage” this week amid record-breaking river water levels as a strong atmospheric river pummels the Pacific Northwest with extreme rainfall.

TUKWILA, Wash. – The swollen and debris-filled Green River tore a hole Monday in a heavily saturated and previously damaged section of King County’s levee system near Tukwila, forcing broad ...