As stormy weather rolled in on Wednesday, Provincetown DPW workers spent the afternoon deploying new orange water-diversion barriers along parts of Commercial Street. With high tide expected to ...

For decades, flooding has remained one of the most destructive and deadly natural disasters in the United States, causing an ...

When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers stacked along the Mendenhall River largely prevented flooding of the nearby ...

On a blustery day in December, a promising new storm-deployable barrier arrived in Provincetown's East End — in pieces. Each segment was waist-high, shaped like the letter “L,” and made of bright red ...

A reduced payment of about $6,300, instead of the originally proposed $8,000, by property owners in a zone at risk of glacial outburst flooding to pay for protective barriers was approved Monday night ...

Under blue skies and sunshine, heavy metal flood barriers between about 4 and 6 feet tall were set up across Boston on Friday. Boston’s flood preparedness demonstration, which doubled as a training ...

(CNN) — For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city of Juneau. But, flood barriers installed by the city managed to ...

Dam gates were opened in California to release excess water for flood control. Authorities from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) began required releases from Oroville Dam's main ...