According to the National Weather Service, San Francisco will experience a mix of wet and dry conditions over the next seven ...

Some words may be mispronounced. 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 ...

Millions of Californians continue to face flood watches ... A strong river can transport as much as 15 times the amount of water flowing through the mouth of the Mississippi River, according ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...