A new levee coming to Palo Alto will protect from rising seas, restore the bay shoreline and improve water quality.

A gap in the levee underneath the North Cross Valley Expressway lets vehicles pass through and then is closed to prevent flooding when water reaches high elevation. Work on the Brookside Levee ...

A community group is worried a project to strengthen levees in Sacramento will lead to the removal of several hundred trees along the American River Parkway, creating long-lasting environmental ...

YUBA CITY — It's the final stretch for a years-long project to improve a key levee near Yuba City. The Tudor flood risk reduction project is finally wrapping up after more than a decade. It will ...

It’s a sunny weekday morning and Joshua Thomas is walking down a trail along the American River in Sacramento. Massive oak trees shade this trail on the south bank of the river near Watt Avenue. He ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Local 5 has more on how city officials are working to keep Des Moines safe through its levee project. To start off, let's clarify what exactly a levee is. A levee is a barrier on ...

Unanticipated engineering issues and the need to relocate utility lines have delayed completion of a combined levee and road project along the Brazos River and will cost the county $225,000 more than ...

On Friday, April 4, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) dropped a bombshell with the cancellation of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program, which ...

Another phase of a massive project that aims to restore natural habitat, reduce the risk of flood and allow the Yakima River to return to natural flows kicked off Tuesday. City, county, federal and ...

A huge levee project years in the works to protect communities along Louisiana's central coast from storm surge will have to undergo another environmental review, potentially further increasing the ...

As part of the planned Duryea levee project, Luzerne County has been asked to decommission the Stephenson Street Bridge over the Lackawanna River so it can be demolished. County Manager Romilda ...

HELENA-WEST HELENA -- Levee project funding and protections from levee slides were the chief concerns of Arkansans on Tuesday at the Corps of Engineers' annual Mississippi River Commission high water ...