A $50 million flood of taxpayer money meant to speed up repairs of Lake Okeechobee’s leaky dike may only shave a few years off the slow-moving fixes. To guard against South Florida flooding ...

As Northern California fights to keep a massive wall of water from breaching Oroville Dam, a business leader in Clewiston hopes the California crisis brings into greater focus a years-long effort ...

After 18 years, a $1.5 billion project was officially completed Wednesday to repair the sprawling dike around Florida’s Lake Okeechobee that protects thousands of people from potentially ...

The earthen flood-control berm around Lake Okeechobee — a 143-mile wall of sorts — made an impression on President Donald Trump when he visited Friday with top Florida officials who want more ...

Before repairs, the Corps calculated there was almost no chance of dike failure with the lake below 15.5 feet, a 45 percent probability at 18 feet and near-certainty at 21 feet.

reaching a 12-year high that threatens the fragile Herbert Hoover Dike as well as the grassy habitats that give life to Lake Okeechobee. At 17.16 feet above sea level on Monday, the lake has risen ...

Lake Okeechobee keeps rising — and so do worries about an aging dike the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ranks among the most vulnerable to failure in the country. With the massive lake swollen by ...

Above: With Lake Okeechobee in the background, crews work to replace a water control structure, or "culvert" in Herbert Hoover Dike along Highway 27 near Clewiston on December 23, 2015.

Many hope that fixing the dike will help reduce the discharges from Lake Okeechobee. The discharges are being blamed for the toxic algae on the Treasure Coast. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

Coastal Florida will continue seeing algae blooms until a restoration of the dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee and other Everglades projects are finished. That was one message from Gov.

SANIKA: RIGHT.IN LIGHT OF THE LEVEE BREACH WE WANTED TO GIVE A CALL TO THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS TOrt UPDATE THE PROGRESS OF THE REHABILITATION PROJECT ON OUR HECHT HOOVER DIKE.NOW, WHAT WE'VE ...

While that’s a few feet below the dike’s potential danger zone, history has shown that Okeechobee can swell by that much in less than a month. Adding to the worry: More than half the lake is ...