Along the Guadalupe River, a 60-room inn and nearby homes were quickly filling with water. Confusion, desperation and heroism ensued.

When floods come, “steep topography produces rapidly rising river stages,” the agency adds, giving people who live and play along the Guadalupe scant warning. The region, experts around the turn of ...

NORFOLK, Va. — After more than 15 years of planning, the City of Norfolk is preparing to break ground on the first phase of its $2.6 billion Coastal Storm Risk Management Project, a massive flood wall ...