The need for independent, local news produced by human reporters living among their audience has always been vital. But in terms of propping up what remains ...

The need for independent, local news produced by human reporters living among their audience has always been vital. But in terms of propping up what remains ...

Capturing rainfall is only one part of the L.A. River's job. It is also a flood control channel that is critical to protecting lives and properties when stormwaters surge.

A pair of workers became trapped by rising stormwaters in a sewer system beneath a street in Downers Grove on Monday. Only one has been rescued.

The new culverts will allow stormwaters to flow safely under the roadway.

Capturing rainfall is only one part of the L.A. River's job. It is also a flood control channel that is critical to protecting lives and properties when stormwaters surge.

Ahead of this week's big national infrastructure symposium, Wellington's mayor describes a city devastated because of neglected stormwaters. Jonathan Milne reports.

City looking for volunteers to help tidy rain gardens.

CAMERON, La.—Sherry Peshoff can see the steel wall from her front door. Her home is lifted 12 feet off the ground to protect it from stormwaters that surge in off the Gulf, but it’s not as high as the wall. Rust red and corrugated, the 31.5-foot-high solid steel fence circumscribes a natural gas export terminal that sprawls across 1,150 acres where grasslands stood just a year ago. The wall is meant to hold back the type of storm surges that pushed through here when Hurricane Rita hit in 2005, followed by Ike in 2008 and Laura and Delta in 2020. Before the storms, Cameron was home to some 2,000 people. Today, fewer than 200 remain. In their place, a company called Venture Global is building a complex of liquefied natural gas terminals that will be one of the largest in the country. The industrial operations cluster together gas-fired turbines and compressors to super-cool methane gas until it becomes a liquid, which is then pumped into tankers and shipped across the ocean. Liquefied natural gas, or LNG, is one of the oil and gas industry’s most lucrative wins. Over a decade, the United States went from nothing to become the world’s...

For 17 years Crescent Beach in Glen Cove was closed to swimmers because water testing showed bacteria levels exceeded the state health standards. The source of the bacteria was finally traced to a couple of pipes leading from two nearby ponds with large populations of waterfowl, according to Nassau County Legis. Delia DeRiggi-Whitton. During heavy rains, their droppings were swept up in stormwaters and carried from those pipes to a stream that flowed into the Sound. Droppings from dogs, raccoons and other animals probably contributed as well, she added. After a series of stormwater management improvements — including filters installed on the pipes, a new drainage pipe to help circulate water and plantings that absorb bacteria — bacteria levels dropped and last month the beach was reopened for the first time in nearly two decades. "I think it’s really a success story about different levels of government working with environmental groups and neighbors to make this happen," DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove) said. "It’s a very peaceful, beautiful beach." While tens of thousands of Long Islanders enjoy the water every year, there are also red tides of algal blooms, and the rare report of life-threatening bacteria in the water. Long Island’s bays...