Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A community group is worried a project to strengthen levees in Sacramento will lead to the removal of several hundred trees along ...

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A plan to plant thousands of hardwood trees across 125 acres in St. Charles Parish to make up for those cut down to build a huge hurricane levee project made sense on paper. In practice, the idea did ...

Work is underway on another section of the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain storm risk reduction project as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded two more contracts. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps ...

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 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 ...

In this, the fall of many people’s discontent, it’s become an accepted truth that the wheels of government move slowly, if at all, on things that really matter or to help the disadvantaged. But not ...

PAJARO, Calif. - It was March 2023 when a levee burst, completely flooding the community of Pajaro in Monterey County. Now a massive new levee project is underway to give up to 100-year flood ...

"While the Corps has constructed several (New Orleans area hurricane levee system) mitigation projects thus far that appear to be on a trajectory for success, the Bayou Segnette Mitigation project ...