A LITTLE BIT LOWER TEMPERATURES INTO THE WEEKEND AS RAIN CHANCES GO UP AND TRACKING YOUR MORNING COMMUTE SINKS A BIG PROBLEMS RIGHT NOW FOR DRIVERS TRAVELING FROM LAPLACE EASTBOUND ON THE BONNET CARRE ...

An independent analysis of the spillway failure at Oroville Dam concludes that extensive sections of the concrete structure disintegrated due to a series of design, construction and maintenance flaws ...

OROVILLE (AP) - An independent team of dam experts says bad design and construction led to a disastrous spillway collapse at the nation's tallest dam. Dam safety experts investigating February's ...

I do not know what the state Department of Water Resources envisions as a design for a new spillway, but I have a suggestion. Instead of trying to fill in the enormous amount of dirt and rock that ...

Anyone who contemplated the wreckage of the Oroville Dam's main spillway back in February — either while water was pounding down the shattered concrete structure or when the flow was stopped later and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The huge levee-rebuilding project around New Orleans is making the Bonnet Carre Spillway in St. Charles Parish a little bit deeper. The more than 7,000-acre spillway is designed to ...

In a bid to help a still-wild river — and restore a huge block of north Palm Beach County wetlands — a concrete-and-steel structure will start to rise from the C-18 Canal this summer. The spillway, a ...