The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, "threatening their structural integrity and downstream communities," according to a new study from Florida. About 250,000 ...

Tropical Storm Helene underscored the dangers of aging dams and flood-control infrastructure in Western North Carolina. Leading up to the storm, some signs already indicated that something more needed ...

Over several days, what had been a low-key fishing hole in a far-flung corner of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula disappeared. After heavy rains last June, the wooden stoplogs on a dam that held back the ...

America's dams are currently averaging 64 years old, and most of us don't give them a second thought until something goes wrong. We drive past them, boat on their reservoirs, and live downstream from ...

The Blue Earth River is very different from what it has been for more than a century. In late June last year the Rapidan Dam suffered a catastrophic failure when floodwaters tore around the west end ...

MIDLAND CO., Mich. (WNEM) - Attorney Ven Johnson joined 30 victims of the historic flooding in Gladwin, Midland, and Saginaw counties on the anniversary of the flood, saying the state of Michigan has ...

Attorneys for about 2,000 Midland-area residents criticized what they called the state's delaying tactics in court five years after the May 19, 2020, failure of the Edenville Dam, which flooded ...

Grand Rapids — More than five years after heavy rains swept out the Edenville Dam, flooding downriver homes and leaving upriver homeowners without a lakefront, Midland-area residents launched what's ...