U.S. Special Forces soldiers freed a kidnapped American working for the Army Corps of Engineers during a nighttime mission last week - a rare hostage rescue in a country where ransom abductions have become increasingly common. ...more

October 22, 2008

Five public meetings are planned next month by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on its operations of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin. ...more

September 22, 2008

When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery - a ragged shipwreck that archaeologists say could be a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later. ...more

September 20, 2008

When residents of several neighborhoods near Orlando International Airport go to bed, they wonder what most homeowners don't: Is there a bomb under my house? ...more

September 18, 2008

Patience is wearing thin among those demanding to know whether their backyards are cluttered with World War II-era ammunition. ...more

September 13, 2008

Though federal, state and local officials were rightly praised for their speedy reaction to the threat of Hurricane Gustav last week, the storm that hit southeast Louisiana also exposed weakness in the hurricane-defense system. ...more

September 12, 2008

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun releasing water from Lake Okeechobee after record-breaking rainfall and ahead of the storms that are looming in the Atlantic Ocean. ...more

September 7, 2008

Even though Hurricane Gustav did not wreak the destruction expected when it struck the Gulf Coast on Monday, officials said Tuesday that they were not ready to allow many of the 1.9 million Louisiana residents who had evacuated to return. ...more

September 3, 2008

New Orleans can get back to its comeback. Traumatized after Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters broke through the levees that protect this city, Hurricane Gustav ended up a mere interruption in rebuilding. ...more

September 2, 2008

Just three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans confronts a new threat from Gustav and a stark question: Will the partially rebuilt levees hold? ...more

August 29, 2008