After the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928, engineers applied lessons learned to expansive dam projects in the American West. Beginning in the 1930s, large dams were built on important watersheds ...

An atmospheric river taking aim at the Midwest and parts of the South could exceed the 500- to 1,000-year average for ...

The Los Angeles Water Bureau piped water from the Owens Valley to fill the reservoir at the St. Francis Dam and gradually removed the Paiute from their ancestral territory.

A Flash Flood Watch has been issued around the Youth Camp Lake dam due to concerns it could fail, causing potential flooding in low-lying areas downstream.