SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- With heavy rain in the forecast for Friday, San Francisco officials are taking a new approach to prevent flood damage. A new type of flood barrier has been put up in a ...

Peter Bangs says he’s already spent $100,000 of his own money protecting his home from the Mendenhall River and this year’s record flooding wasn’t high enough to reach his property, so he’s not ...

When natural disasters strike, they can wreak havoc on our homes and communities. Flooding, in particular, can cause ...

Provincetown DPW staff work together to interlock the pieces of the red plastic flood barrier. "We've got to finesse her. We're trying to finesse her, here," said Nate Edwards, center, of fitting the ...

When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers stacked along the Mendenhall River largely prevented flooding of the nearby ...

This week experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sought to address concerns about flood barriers and other prevention measures during a meeting of city leaders. Next week those experts will try ...

JUNEAU — Over the past few months, contractors in Juneau have been constructing roughly 2 miles of temporary barriers, in hopes that they will protect against a glacial flooding phenomenon that ...

On a stormy day in December, a promising new storm-deployable barrier arrived in Provincetown’s East End — in pieces. Each segment was waist-high, shaped like the letter “L,” and made of bright red ...