Still, the disaster ended Mulholland’s career, and ranks today among the worst in U.S. civil engineering history. The St. Francis Dam Disaster is one of the lesser-known incidents of L.A.’s ...

The unrecognized past of America’s newest national monument presents a chance for us to better understand our present environmental challenges. Before Los Angeles demolished it, the dam’s ...

Whether there's anything to be learned from the St. Francis Dam disaster is nearly immaterial, since so few people even know it took place. Two people are trying to change that: Alan Pollack ...

The St. Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial Act, a bill by Rep. Steve Knight, R-Santa Clarita and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., would honor the dead and tell their stories as well of those of ...

WASHINGTON - The House passed a bill to create a memorial to victims of the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster for the second time Tuesday, but its future remains unclear because there still is no ...

This article was originally published March 11, 2019. In March 1928, the worst civil engineering failure in California history killed more than 450 people when a wall of water carved a path of ...

The public has the opportunity to walk the site of the March 12, 1928, St. Francis Dam disaster. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 15, the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society is offering its ...

On this day in 1928, the St. Francis Dam ... because Mulholland's disaster in water politicking was the inspiration for Roman Polanski's Chinatown. Ed. note: Any and all "Dam, Daniel" jokes ...

The St. Francis ... the disaster ended Mulholland's career. NPR's Michele Norris talks with John Wilkman and his wife Nancy, who are working on the documentary film The Saint Francis Dam Disaster.

The man-made flood marks the second-largest loss of life in a single disaster in California. Only the 1906 San Francisco earthquake accounted for more fatalities. St. Francis dam construction ...

The St. Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial Act, a bill by Rep. Steve Knight, R-Santa Clarita and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., would honor the dead and tell their stories as well of those of ...