Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is ...

Millions of Californians continue to face flood watches and advisories as lingering rain from a powerful atmospheric river storm maintains the threat of flooding. Northern parts of the state and areas ...

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Vice Chairman of the Red Cross James Fieser. Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, can not tame that lawless stream ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is critical as the river basin sees more frequent and severe extreme ...

Advertisement In 1970, St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Curt Flood filed a $1 million antitrust lawsuit against Major League Baseball and MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, arguing for the right to ...

After the great Mississippi River flood of 1927 occurred, the U.S. government leveed the whole river. This levee work cut off the natural tributaries of Bayous Lafourche and Baritaria, near New ...

The '93 flood rekindled an old debate: what to do about the loss of the river's natural floodplain. Originally, the waters of the Mississippi spread over many thousand square miles of lowlands.

The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in American history In the spring of 1927 the river broke out of its banks in 145 places and inundated 27000 square miles ...