DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Four out of five of the Miami Conservancy District (MCD) Flood Protection Dams are actively storing ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Severe Weather Center 13 Investigation found many levees across the Mid-South are unregulated, un-mapped, and you may not even know if one protects your home. In February 2025, a ...

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Almost half of the country lives near a levee, and 12 have already failed during spring flooding Critics blame Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA for broken levees flooding the Midwest The levees "were ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you live around the San Francisco Bay, you're probably familiar with cement sea walls and sturdy levees. But, increasingly, a nature-based design is providing an alternative ...

Fort Bend County has completed its first U.S. Army Corps of Engineers–led levee inspections, flood preparedness that officials said could save lives, protect property and reduce flood insurance costs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volunteers fill sandbags in preparation for flooding along the Missouri River in St Joseph, Mo., Monday, March 18, 2019. Hundreds ...

Severe weather strikes: Multiple parishes in southeast Louisiana report damage, flooding risks, and power outages as heavy rain and winds continue through the weekend. Climate warning issued: A new ...

In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across Washington, Oregon and California, unloading enormous amounts of rain. As rivers surged, they overtopped or breached multiple ...

Last week, we reviewed Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, a sprawling, imaginative ecological fable about embattled people living in the fast-disappearing Louisiana wetlands. In a mostly ...

Historic flooding along the Arkansas River put pressure on dozens of levees, creating scares for some communities and prompting Gov. Asa Hutchinson to call for a review of the state's patchwork levee ...