On Memorial Day 1889, a neglected dam failed under the weight of a brutal storm—what followed was a 40-foot wall of destruction that wiped Johnstown off the map. Ron DeSantis Gives Update on ...

In life Francis I, 'Most Christian King' of a France that only sixty years before his accession had finally expelled English occupiers from the realm (and had still to tolerate Calais as an English ...

In total, at least 431 people are believed to have been killed in the St. Francis Dam disaster. It is considered to be the worst civil engineering disaster of the 20th century. Eventually ...

On March 29, 1928, the body of a young boy who had remained unidentified in the makeshift Newhall morgue in the wake of the St. Francis Dam disaster was finally laid to rest. In the hours after ...

Through advanced hydrological modeling and satellite data analysis, researchers found that while Storm Daniel brought heavy rainfall, the catastrophe stemmed from dam failures and flawed ...

"Myanmar just can't afford another disaster." People across the country are affected by "widespread violence", and the health system has "been decimated by conflict, overwhelmed by outbreaks of ...

A school bus driver fatally struck a 20-year-old man riding an electric bike in St. Francis on Friday morning, authorities said. The collision happened just before 7:30 a.m. when a woman who was ...

Image Nuns waited for the seating area to be opened for a Rosary service for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square last month.Credit...James Hill for The New York Times “His voice will return as ...

(RNS) — It was a close call, but Francis’ emergence from Gemelli Hospital ensures that implementation of the Synod on Synodality's goals will outlast him. (RNS) — Just when it looked like ...

Polley mine disaster? Will charges ever be laid in the Mt. Polley mine disaster? The tailings dam at the open-pit gold and copper mine in B.C.’s Cariboo region gave way in August 2014 ...