Reclamation district officials in Wilton said Tuesday that it will cost $1.5 million to fill a gaping hole the size of a football field in the Cosumnes River levee, one of 11 trouble spots they ...

Wyatt, Mo. — The Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate bid to save an Illinois town from rising floodwaters. The corps said the ...

OMAHA, Neb. — The city of Omaha said its 40-foot levee will block the Missouri River's 35-foot crest, which is expected Thursday.. Sand barriers and sandbags are in place to protect major pieces ...

What good is a levee if it cannot keep the water out? People in Conway County are trying to solve that problem, because a part of the levee is wide open to the Arkansas River.

The river deluged downtown Santa Cruz with flood water more than a dozen times from 1862 to 1955. A cyclist pedals along the ...

ROCK PORT, Mo. - A partial breach has appeared on a levee along the Missouri River in northwest Missouri, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday, a day after officials ordered hundreds of ...

Maintenance work is being done on the Little River Levee, "neglected for years,” in order to bring it up to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers standards, said Westfield's city engineer.

An aerial view of the 1948 Vanport Flood, which breached part of the Columbia River levee system. Voters were asked to decide on a new floodwall for that segment in Multnomah County's May 21 election.

Puebloans can now walk, run and bike on a recently completed paved path on top of the Arkansas River levee that runs about 2.8 miles between Wildhorse Creek almost to Runyon Lake.. The new trail ...

NEW ORLEANS — The already high river level on the Mississippi is creating a major area of concern with the tropical system in the Gulf. The National Weather Service now predicts the river will ...

A dredging company began construction on Tuesday of a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee designed to block a wedge of Gulf of Mexico saltwater from reaching public and industrial water supply intakes ...

Monterey County officials say the Pajaro River levee breached at approximately midnight Friday, March 10, evacuating more than 2,000 residents. "It's not going to be a matter of days." ...