AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed Senate Bill 18 — a bill passed unanimously in the second-called special session that would remove bureaucratic “red tape” when repairing flood-control ...
Dubbed “The Great Flood of 2019” by The New York Times, the Lower Missouri River Basin experienced its third severe flood event over a 30-year period that ravaged communities and infrastructure across ...
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Editorial- Science-based flood control

Better late than never. Amid the still widening corruption scandal, government officials say certain flood control projects will resume or be implemented. The difference this time is that the projects ...
Most of the time, levees don’t demand attention. They quietly do their job, year after year. But when storms intensify, ...
‘Giant tricycles,’ modified for easy navigation in flooded areas, ply the streets of Hagonoy, Bulacan, on July 31, 2023. Rainiel Angelyn Figueroa, ABS-CBN News/File BULACAN — Lanie Tolentino and her ...
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo is making calls for transparency after a Monday audit showed the Harris County Flood Control District allegedly failed to implement a reformed procurement process for ...