Water seeping under a levee near the Mel Price Lock and Dam in Alton.
A plague of “sand boils” undermining an important Mississippi River levee in Alton is an ominous reminder of the critical need for extensive flood protection improvements in the…
Traffic lines up on Highway 141 in this Post-Dispatch file photo.
The formula for economic growth in St. Louis County has been the same for decades: Build more roads and open more land for development in hopes of attracting new business…
About 1 o’clock Friday morning, the Mississippi River will reach the highest level ever recorded at Clarksville, Mo. It will keep rising.
For the next two days, the river will go higher than it ever has been. Businesses from First Street to…
Here’s an advance look at one of the editorials that will appear in Tuesday’s Post-Dispatch and online at STLtoday.com/news/editorials.
HIGH WATER, HARD CHOICE
Some things in life are inevitable. Death and taxes rank right up there. So does flooding along the Meramec,…
