PACIFIC, Wash. – The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Seattle issued a flash flood warning for part of southwestern King County early Tuesday morning, after the office said county officials ...

ATLANTA — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a researcher at Georgia Tech has developed a simulator to understand the failures of the levees that led to widespread flooding.

Dams and levees are critical pieces of our infrastructure and our history. They're one of the oldest type of human-made structures on the planet, and they were one of the first things that that ...

Worsening storms have overtopped and breached levees across the West. Many U.S. levees are decades old and were not designed for extreme weather. Levee failures can cause rapid, deep flooding with ...