Federal, state and local officials broke ground July 26 on a levee project along the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain. It's designed to provide hurricane and storm protection to a three-parish area where 60,000 people have little to no defenses in place.

Storm retention and green space project in Houston is on time and within budget despite pandemic and community-related challenges.

County officials are exploring alternative funding opportunities to avoid construction delays.

Pearl River flooding has renewed urgency for regional control efforts, including a controversial plan to build a dam in Jackson that would create a 1,500-acre lake, widen the river and make way for commercial development.

Flooding on the Mississippi River and its tributaries throughout Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and nine other states caused an estimated $6.2 billion in damage in 2019, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its annual National Climate Report, released Jan. 15.

Piecemeal funding necessitated dividing this flood reduction project into more than 70 individual projects.

New Orleans is facing the biggest test of its post-Katrina hurricane protection system as the region is bracing for up to 20 inches of rain from Barry.

With Hurricane Harvey almost two years in the rearview mirror, Houstonians have started to imagine a future city that is resilient to storms and stressors that can be a model for the nation.

Officials from Midwest cities and towns are finally getting a chance to reevaluate flood control after flood waters have begun to recede, some for the first time this year.

Flooding has plagued Midwest towns and cities along the Mississippi River for most of the year, and only now are officials in some towns considering ways to mitigate future flood events.