The Greater Johnstown Water Authority board of directors has approved rate increases to help fund the North Fork Dam ...

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The second "great flood" to hit Johnstown, Pa., happened 40 years ago on July 20, 1977. It was, however, the third flood to devastate the town in Cambria County - the first in 1889 killed more than ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — Friday marked 130 years since the Great Johnstown flood of 1889 – a day that forever changed the city. To the day 130 years ago, the South Fork Dam burst after days of rainfall ...

Water bills in the Johnstown region are scheduled to rise by 4% each year for the next 14 years to pay for the $27 million ...

ST. MICHAEL, Pa. – The 136th anniversary of the 1889 Johnstown Flood will be recognized May 31. Johnstown Flood National Memorial will commemorate the victims of the flood that occurred on May 31, ...

FARGO — Flood disasters are almost invariably a combination of natural "Acts of God" and engineering failures. On May 31, 1889, an 11-inch rain following an already wet spring led to the catastrophic ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – As it rumbled toward the city, the 35-foot wave of rain-swollen water churned over and onto itself like a giant snowball, swallowing trees, boulders, homes and anything else in its ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Emergency officials rushed to evacuate about 3,000 people below a dam near Johnstown on Wednesday after hours of heavy rains triggered plans to ensure the safety of downstream ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Soaking rains from the remnants of Hurricane Ida prompted the evacuations of thousands of people Wednesday after water reached dangerous levels at a dam near Johnstown, Pa. The storm ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Emergency officials rushed to evacuate about 3,000 people below a dam near Johnstown on Wednesday after hours of heavy rains triggered plans to ensure the safety of downstream ...