WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A United States Department of Commerce and Economic Development Administration sign can be seen in front of the Hepburn Pump System on Hepburn Street in Williamsport. The city ...

PALMVIEW, Texas (Border Report) — As federally-authorized construction crews toiled away Thursday to repair four giant breaches in the earthen levees caused by border wall construction in South Texas, ...

It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

Recently, in a letter in this publication, writers Paul Kemp and Ivor van Heerden stated the pre-Hurricane Katrina levee boards gave the Army Corps of Engineers a 40-year pass on the “never quite ...

The passage of Senate Bill 5 in 2007 to identity 200-year flood plains in California in the aftermath of the Hurricane ...

Rushford’s levee system didn’t fail in 2007. It was overwhelmed. Seventeen inches of rain spread across a day formed a rushing wall of water that barreled through Rush Creek and rose over parts of the ...