Congress acts swiftly to address the flood-control problem ... include strengthened seawalls and levees along the lakefront as well as within the Industrial Canal and along the Mississippi ...

The wave of resignations risks leaving the flood control agency paralyzed, with hurricane season's start just weeks away.

8. Early in the morning surge waters cresting over the levee system in the northern arm of the Industrial Canal flood Orleans East. Later, around 10 a.m., floodwaters overtop levees along Lake ...

A fourth board member at the New Orleans area levee authority resigned on Thursday, escalating the fallout over controversial ...

Some say key flood improvement votes could be affected. But one reformer says the levees will be just fine. It was 19 years ago that Ruthie Frierson led a group of more than 100 -- called ...

SLO County Public Works The San Luis Obispo County Department of Public Works will begin work this week to repair damage to the Arroyo Grande Creek flood control channel and levee in Oceano ...

Experts have long predicted flood threats in California’s most important estuary, but lawmakers spend climate change money elsewhere.

State and federal leaders are highlighting a $96 million project in Stockton to upgrade flood control protections for thousands of residents and property owners in the area of the Smith Canal.

IF YOU REMEMBER, IN 2011 AND 2019, POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY EXPERIENCED DEVASTATING FLOODS THAT KNOCKED DOWN THE LEVEES AND CALLED FOR THEM TO BE FIXED. BUT LAST YEAR’S FLOOD EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ...

And why would he want the head of the levee board’s police force effectively to take operational control of most of the functions that the departed director, with expertise applicable to flood ...