CHICAGO (WLS) -- Wilmington residents were allowed to return to their homes after a melting ice jam along the Kankakee River posed a serious flooding threat Wednesday. Firefighters waded through water to rescue people from their homes earlier in the day.

The storm system is forecast to bring several months’ worth of rain to Southern California in the span of just a few days, while a flash flood threat covers the Bay Area and Northern

River ice dynamics represent a critical facet of fluvial systems, influencing hydrological, ecological and socio‐economic functions. Research in this field has established that seasonal freezing and thawing mediate water flow and sediment transport while ...

New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska's capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented widespread damage after an ice dam at the nearby Mendenhall Glacier released a massive amount of rainwater and snowmelt downstream ...

Large chunks of ice slowly shifting along the rushing Mohawk River could jam and cause flooding in parts of Schenectady County this morning. Meteorologist Bob Kilpatrick of the National Weather Service in Albany said the flow of the Mohawk is continuing to ...

The Tri-Cities chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute is reviving its public lecture series with a free program Nov. 4 p.m. in Richland on the changing Columbia River System over millions of years. The volunteer-based nonprofit is committed to the recognition of the ice age floods as a significant part of the nation’s and world’s natural heritage.