"A way to protect the environment at no cost to taxpayers." City officials announce controversial dam removal project — ...

After years of protests, court battles and even picketing, Klamath tribes are able to return to a restored river.

At a meeting of a Housatonic River citizens council this week in Lenox, Massachusetts, the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

The Lure Dam was built in 1927 on the Broad River, about one hour’s drive east of Asheville and two hours west of Charlotte. Lake Lure itself is best known nationally as a filming site for the ...

East Tennessee and its mountainous terrain are a maze of rivers controlled by dams. Some counties that the Nolichucky River flows through − Greene, Washington and Unicoi − were hit especially ...

Douglas Dam was spilling a record amount of water, 450,000 gallons a second. The Nolichucky Dam withstood twice the water flow of Niagara Falls.

After rising flood waters Friday and Saturday, the dam reached a record elevation of eight feet. It is now significantly lower. Below is drone footage of the Nolichucky River taken by News Channel ...

By Friday afternoon, officials said that the wall of the dam is currently holding but water from the flooded Broad River is overtopping it and support structures have been compromised. But by late ...

the dam’s operator, said earlier, adding that potentially life-threatening flooding could occur as far downstream as Douglas Lake. By Friday night, water levels on the Nolichucky River were 17 ...

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Duke Energy crews opened the floodgates Friday to the Cowans Ford Dam located near Huntersville on Lake Norman. They’re trying to ease the pressure on some of the lakes in ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The banks of the Swannanoa river overflow an effect of Hurricane Helene, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in ...