FLORENCE, Ala. ( WAFF) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced how much it will cost to repair the lock gates at the Wilson Dam. It will cost $18 million in total.

The temporary outage will impact Wilson Dam Road from 6th Street South to the Railroad Overpass. Muscle Shoals Electric Board crews will be replacing utility poles at 6th Street and Wilson Dam Road.

The main lock, which allows barges to travel around Wilson Dam on the Tennessee River, has been closed since September. An inspection found years of wear and tear had damaged the lock’s gate.

In 2014, a dam at the Mount Polley copper and gold mine breached, sending 25 million cubic metres of mine waste downriver in the largest disaster of its kind ever seen in North America.BC ...

Carnie Wilson’s daughter Lola Bonfiglio is holding on for one more day after making it through the first round of auditions on “American Idol.” Bonfiglio made her “Idol” debut on Sunday ...

The B.C. government has issued a consent order to Mount Polley Mining Corp. to raise a tailings pond dam by four metres at the site of one of the largest environmental disasters in provincial history.

Obasanjo has lamented the failure of Oyan Dam built by him in 1977 as the military Head of State, to help mitigate the challenge of water scarcity in Abeokuta. The former President explained that ...