The Department of Water Resources began releasing water out of the Oroville Dam's main spillway 6 a.m. Monday after rainstorms this week pushed Lake Oroville's capacity to around 70%.

It’s a sight that usually means California is having a good winter and water supplies are healthy. This week, operators at Oroville Dam, the tallest dam in the United States, which holds back ...

OROVILLE, Calif. - The Department of Water Resources (DWR) plans to use Oroville Dam's main spillway for flood control releases starting Monday. As of 6 a.m., some water was flowing down the spillway.

In February 2017, a section of the Oroville Dam spillway shattered under intense water pressure, setting off a chain reaction that nearly destroyed the tallest dam in America. Over 200,000 people were ...

BOULDER CITY, Nev. — The Hoover Dam visitor center reopened Monday while authorities continued investigating the weekend discovery of an explosive blasting cap in a construction tunnel. Bob Walsh, ...

These are the desperate scenes of four men clinging onto a stranded boat as it hangs off the edge of a dam spillway near the town of Standerton, in the South African province of Mpumalanga, before ...

AU TRAIN, MI — Michigan regulators are warning that the troubled Au Train Dam is following a similar path as the Edenville Dam failure, citing years of unresolved safety deficiencies, regulatory ...

An 'impressive' surge of water roared down the Oroville Dam Spillway earlier this week as California Department of Water Resources (DWR) officials began the process of releasing billions of gallons of ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A pair of friends whose St. Petersburg homes were flooded by Hurricane Helene have opened a new business, Dam It Defense, which sells barriers aimed at preventing flooding. “We ...

FARGO — The earthen embankment of Garrison Dam that controls the flow of the mighty Missouri River has fused with the prairie landscape through its elongated bulk stretching across a wide valley. More ...