Since the flood of 1997, Fargo leaders have been looking for ways to protect the city's emerging south side from a similar scenario. Now, nearly two years after the idea of a South Fargo Flood ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. In September 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas, as a Category 4 storm with around 20 ...

Repairs to the Quillayute Sea dike protecting the Quileute Tribe’s 800-year-old fishing village, will begin this fall. The $5.7 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers repair project will protect the La ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- With another hurricane season approaching, Gov. Jeb Bush has asked the federal government to shore up a dike that keeps the nation's second-largest lake from overflowing, ...

PAHOKEE, Fla. - In 1961, engineers completed an 85-mile section of dike around Lake Okeechobee, and the public was assured it could rest easy - there would be no more disasters like the two 1920s ...