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KING COUNTY, Wash. — Late into a nearly hour-long news conference, the head of King County’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks made a sobering statement about weak spots in the county’s levee ...

At least one person has died amid flash flooding and levee failures in Washington, officials said Dec. 16. Sheriff's deputies and fire personnel responded to a report of a vehicle in the water at ...

TUKWILA, Wash. — Residents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate early Tuesday, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in the ...

A response team crew member walks by standing water from a levee breach on the Green River in Tukwila.(AP) Southern King County floods: Residents and businesses in the King County region on Monday ...

The National Weather Service said the Desimone levee on Washington’s Green River breached near Todd Boulevard in King County amid rising floodwaters. The National Weather Service announced that the ...

Volunteers were out bright and early Wednesday morning along the Harbor Marsh coastline in the Palo Alto Baylands, joining an effort to build a nature-based buffer designed to absorb storm surges and ...

TUKWILA, Wash. — The National Weather Service in Seattle canceled its flash flood warning for west-central King County on Monday after a breach occurred in the Desimone Levee along the Green River.

Maps shared by the National Weather Service (NWS) and King County Emergency Management in Washington state show where more than 46,000 people were ordered to evacuate around 15 miles south of Seattle ...

TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — Crews used sandbags to shore up an earthen levee south of Seattle on Monday after a small section of it failed following a week of heavy rains, prompting an evacuation order ...