If I had to choose the most sensible plan for settling the American West that was foolishly discarded by politicians with the power to make it so, I’d go with John Wesley Powell’s scheme to arrange ...

Some states have much worse drinking water quality than others, new data reveals. Data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows how many Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) violations were ...

A map from the USGS showed that some rivers were 23,000 percent of their normal median level or higher as of Friday morning.

It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.