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.

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, ...

Arkansas legislators should change current law to allow the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission to have some level of oversight in the state's patchwork levee system, a senator told the state's new ...

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 ...

The passage of Senate Bill 5 in 2007 to identity 200-year flood plains in California in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina levee failure disaster and required protection to be in place — or work ...

PLUMERVILLE, Ark. — With the onslaught of rain that Arkansas saw earlier this month, and more expected in the coming days, some in Conway County have been claiming that their levee system isn’t ...

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 ...

While a contingent of state, county and local officials ponders the fate of a levee system around the Wisconsin River, many of those who live in potentially flood-prone areas want the system left ...

TULSA, Okla. — State lawmakers said repairs will be coming to Tulsa's levee system in the upcoming months. "A very big step was taken that no one noticed, and that was the signing of all of these ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have jointly awarded a $167 million contract for the construction of eight miles of a levee wall system along the U.S. Border ...