Now a tropical depression with heavy rainfall, storm slows to a crawl and builds significant flood risk across Carolinas and SW Virginia; power still out for 450,000 Duke Energy customers.

Legislation also authorizes $4.4-billion over three years for drinking-water state revolving funds.

South Carolina officials brace for 7 in. of rain or more in upstate, midland areas, higher levels on coast.

Ohio River barge traffic expected to speed up thanks to Olmsted

The dust has settled from a methane explosion last month that brought down the roof of a sludge concentration building at the Calumet water reclamation plant on Chicago’s far south side, but there is still uncertainty as to what triggered the blast.

South Carolina safety experts fan out to assess dams whose failure would pose the most risk to population and evacuation routes