Muddy floodwaters from severe rains inundated streets, pushed homes off their foundations, swallowed vehicles and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of residents in towns north of Honolulu on ...

The collapse of the Teton Dam spilled 80 billion gallons of water into eastern Idaho, killing 11 people and 13,000 head of ...

The Coast Guard was conducting search and rescue efforts for residents whose homes may have been washed away by the floods, ...

Whether Wahiawa Dam was safe or about to fail was top of mind throughout these storms. It became a flashpoint for what ...

The private owner of a dam in Wahiawa that city officials warned could fail and endanger North Shore residents amid a deluge on Friday contends that the dam functioned as designed, is safe, and ...

After two storms struck Hawaii over the past week, causing flooding, officials warned that a large dam on the island of Oahu ...

Hawaii is set to acquire a 120-year-old dam that prompted thousands of residents to evacuate last week amid fears of catastrophic failure during heavy rains. The state's land board voted on Friday to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, "threatening their structural integrity and ...

South Dakota lawmakers approved an additional $8.2 million for the Richmond Lake Dam project, citing risks to lives and ...

There are thousands of dams across the country in poor and unsatisfactory condition that are languishing without adequate funding for repair or staffing to ensure timely inspections.Some of those dams ...

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 ...