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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE - Rehabilitation work takes place on top of the Herbert Hoover Dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee, just a few feet from a home on Nov. 1, 2019, in Pahokee, Fla. Hurricane tides overtopped the ...

Every new storm that begins brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Beryl for example, plants that little seed all over again: Is this the one? The category 4 or 5 hurricane that sails into Galveston ...

Workmen at the Hadley Dike at North Lane in 1888, which was rebuilt and finished by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1828 after bad flooding in 1927. The Hadley levee at the north end of West Street ...

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, ...

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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 ...

After 18 years, a $1.5 billion project was officially completed Wednesday to repair the sprawling dike around Florida's Lake Okeechobee that protects thousands of people from potentially catastrophic ...