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The Coast Guard was conducting search and rescue efforts for residents whose homes may have been washed away by the floods, Hawaii's governor said.
REXBURG — Don Ellis overlooked the Teton River as he watched a wall of water break through the newly-completed Teton Dam. It was 11:55 a.m. on June 5, 1976, and the local radio personality was broadcasting live on KRXK as the 3,100-foot-long flood ...
After three torrential storms dumped 10 inches of rain on Northern California in nine days in February 1986, Sacramento’s flood protections were bursting at the seams. Something had to give — and did. At 6 a.m. on Feb. 18, water began spilling over an ...
BHP won its effort to throw out a contempt of court case over the funding of litigation to prevent Brazilian municipalities suing the company in London over the 2015 Mariana dam collapse.
This is the third in a series of stories highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Teton Dam Disaster. Click here to read the first installment. Read the second installment here. IDAHO FALLS – Gerald and Millie McNabb were hours away from getting married when they heard the Teton Dam had collapsed.
Evacuation orders have been issued in parts of Oʻahu as the Wahiawa Dam faces a serious risk of failure amid dangerous flooding.