Who can fill sandbags faster: man or machine? That question drew several dozen emergency workers, public officials and members of the news media Monday morning to a King County reservoir in the ...

Recreators construct an ice fishing hut on Dec. 7 at the Chena River Lakes Flood Control Project in North Pole, Alaska. With a permit from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, people can ...

BROWN COUNTY (WLUK) -- Brown County employees filled sand bags ahead of the flooding Wednesday. Workers used a sand-bagging machine the county bought in August. Rather than using volunteers, this ...

Amid hammering rainfall, viscous mud flows and multiple state emergency declarations, Los Angeles County’s Byzantine flood control system has thus far absorbed near-record precipitation — a ...

1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Emergency Operations Manager George Minges and Maintenance Mechanic Bryan Whitler, both from the Louisville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, operate a ...

Farmers accidentally created a flood-resistant ‘machine’ across Bangladesh Pumping water in the dry months makes the ground sponge-like for the wet season, a system called the Bengal Water ...

Flood control improvements unveiled Tuesday, Aug. 15, in Huntington Beach are part of a decades-long series of projects that federal and local officials say will improve flood protection in ...

Here’s one flood control project delayed for more than 50 years. Congressman Pete Olson said the Clear Creak flood risk mitigation project was first authorized back in 1968.

Lucinda Andreani with the flood control district said flooding fears have impacted families in this area for years. “Many of them do not sleep at night because we have rainfall events,” she said.

Negotiations over the Columbia River basin could affect the environment in Canada and electrical generation and flood control in the United States. Negotiations of a 60-year-old treaty between ...