Plans are moving ahead this week for two massive projects that would deliver 100-year flood protection for the lower Mississippi Valley. The question is whether the money and political will exists for the two protection systems to materialize.

The $14.9-million, 500,0000-sq-ft MetroSouth COVID-19 alternate care facility was designed and built by Perkins and Will and Clark Construction in just 22 days.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project is designed to augment a $14.6-billion storm protection system.

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.

In 2007, reports started filling newspapers and websites about the poor treatment of wounded veterans in aging federal hospitals, including those being built and run by the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

In one respect, Tangier Island, Va.’s situation has been the same for centuries: Its shorelines are still eroding into the Chesapeake Bay.