Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten what happened after Hurricane Betsy caused catastrophic flooding four decades ago and again think the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind. ...more

August 24, 2008

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection signed off Thursday on plans to dredge 22 canals and four channels, a multimillion-dollar project that has been years in the making. ...more

July 4, 2008

A heroic effort by hundreds of townspeople, volunteers and National Guardsmen to hold back the Mississippi River failed Friday - undone by a burrowing muskrat. ...more

June 28, 2008

Hospital patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers were evacuated in the middle of the night as the biggest flood Cedar Rapids has seen swamped more than 400 blocks Friday and all but cut off the supply of clean drinking water in the city of 120,000. ...more

June 14, 2008

Howard "Budd" Post, founder of one of the state's leading engineering firms and the designer of Miami Lakes, died Tuesday. He was 83. ...more

June 12, 2008

Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited the Everglades last week to highlight his commitment to Florida's natural treasures and promptly stepped into political muck. ...more

June 10, 2008

The developers of Cypress Creek Town Center have been cleared to do additional earthwork on their mothballed mall site, but only to prevent flooding should the site be hit with heavy rainfall this summer. ...more

May 22, 2008

The city's Port Authority board wants it; so do the mayor and several city council members. And a group of residents has been calling for it for months. ...more

February 23, 2008

The developers of Cypress Creek Town Center on Thursday outlined plans to correct problems that last month flooded a nearby creek with muddy water. ...more

February 8, 2008

WESLEY CHAPEL - Less than a week after federal officials suspended a developer's right to develop part of its property, Cypress Creek Town Center officials today outlined plans to correct problems that last month flooded a nearby creek with muddy water. ...more

February 7, 2008