Clever engineering and regular maintenance keep a 100-year-old dam and levee system operating, protecting more than $10 billion in property annually.

Roughly 39,000 property owners across the region are paying more money on tax bills due Feb. 14 to prevent the Great Miami River from overflowing its banks.

The recent spate of LA fires has led many different parties to re-examine state and local approaches to building approval.

The agency issued an internal memo saying it would “pause” a regulation directing that schools, libraries and other public ...

Construction is underway at numerous sites in Seaside Heights, but the property officials once thought would jumpstart ...

From humble beginnings to a "Shark Tank" appearance, Tom & Chee took the area by storm. Here's where the original owners are ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

The Joliet City Council approved spending $115,000 to buy two of seven parcels needed for the levee to be built along the ...

Nothing about this … constitutes a crime,’ Scott County attorney says of Davenport building collapse last year.

Almost $17 million allocated last week will advance two, long-awaited Oceanside projects — a new community park at El Corazon ...

As the town faces a combined $90 million or more in spending needed to rebuild, improve and extend the dike and levee system ...

Maggie Valley will soon learn whether a critical bridge that leads to the town's wastewater treatment facility and was damaged by Tropical Storm Helene can be repaired or totally needs to be replaced.