Painted by local artist Kassie Matherne, the new Levee Wall Mural brings the vital role of levees to life for children, ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a researcher at Georgia Tech has developed a simulator to understand the failures of the levees that led to widespread flooding. Dr.

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DUTCHTOWN, Mo. -- The flood war continued on two fronts in Dutchtown on Wednesday as the Army Corps of Engineers, county highway department workers and volunteers continued building levees to hold ...

WASHINGTON - Contractors who appear to have cut corners in building New Orleans' levees may have contributed to their failures after Hurricane Katrina, the engineer who directed an inquiry into the ...

A tense meeting of the New Orleans levee board ended with members voting not to recommend removing two commissioners, ...

First, there was President Trump’s executive order to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in the Central Valley, a move the Feds walked back after farmers and water experts ...