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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 March 12, 1928, collapse of the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles is, in terms of loss of life, the second-greatest disaster in California history. The worst was the San Francisco ...

“200 Dead, 300 Missing, $7,000,000 Loss in St. Francis Dam Disaster,” read the Los Angeles Times front page on the 14th. The final tallies would end up being much worse. Humans make mistakes ...

The collapse of the St. Francis Dam on March 12, 1928, is, in terms of loss of life, the second-greatest disaster in California history. The first was the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.

“While we don’t know the technical details of why it’s still standing, there were over 400 people who gave their lives in the St. Francis Dam disaster that contributed to the massive saving ...

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 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 ...