The Juneau Assembly on Monday night approved spending up to $2 million to install Hesco barriers along a stretch of the Mendenhall River as a semi-permanent levee to protect homes from flooding of ...

According to a memo from City Manager Katie Koester, “most homeowners were favorable to the concept of Hesco barrier installation to protect their and others’ property.” But a few who ...

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 ...

HYDERABAD: Three employees of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) suffered injuries when they came under attack by a group of ‘power defaulters’ near Syed Abdullah Shah Institute of ...

The barriers, made by a company called HESCO, are basically massive heavy-duty sandbags in metal baskets. They’re used for flood fighting across the nation, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

Instead of overalls, Alan has donned a wetsuit, snorkel and flippers to show me around Hastings Reef, a horseshoe-shaped expanse of the outer Great Barrier Reef some 30 miles off Cairns.

Barrier islands, long, narrow strips of sand, buffer the mainland from the power of the ocean. In the eastern U.S., barrier islands cover 2,300 miles of shoreline. Naturally, they're always moving.

Some may make a personal political choice not to vote. Others face barriers to registering and receiving election information without a permanent address. But even more pressing, experts say ...

Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said bad actors are preying on residents and businesses reeling from the storms. An aerial photo taken Oct. 16 in Madeira Beach shows debris piles outside of hurricane ...

LGBTQ+ people face unique barriers to voting, but it’s not just the LGBTQ+ community that can be turned away from the polls. A lack of language access, purges of voter rolls, restrictive voter ...