The risk of snowmelt flooding is highest in areas with deep winter snowpacks, such as the northern U.S. and mountainous ...

To save the town of Cairo, Illinois, the Army Corps of Engineers blasted a two-mile hole in the levee to let the waters flow into the New Madrid Floodway. Today, meteorologists have become very ...

It’s worth noting that Big Oak Tree State Park faced a significant challenge in 2011 when the deliberate breaching of the Birds Point Levee to prevent flooding in Cairo, Illinois, sent Mississippi ...

This prevents the artificial building of levees along the dredged channel ... “Particle Size Distributions of Bed Sediments along the Thalweg of the Mississippi River, Cairo, Illinois, to Head of ...

: The semi truck crash that blocked the U.S. 51 Ohio River "Cairo" Bridge earlier Monday has been cleared, according to KYTC.

Friends of Round Top Inc. plans to sue the Cairo Planning Board over its March 6 state environmental review declaration vote ...

Some say key flood improvement votes could be affected. But one reformer says the levees will be just fine. It was 19 years ago that Ruthie Frierson led a group of more than 100 -- called ...