The Taum Sauk reservoir was pushed far beyond how it was originally designed to operate. Faulty sensors, ignored warnings, and a disabled safety system allowed water to rise unchecked. When it ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Nearly a year after Ameren Corp.'s Taum Sauk reservoir burst, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has offered a settlement proposal to the St. Louis-based utility company, ...

Lesterville, Mo. - Atop Proffit Mountain is a symphony of tractor-trailers and giant earth-moving machines, as work crews erect 100-foot-tall concrete walls that will form the sides of a mammoth pool ...

LESTERVILLE (AP) â A decade after the collapse of the Taum Sauk reservoir in southeast Missouri, the director of Missouri State Parks says the landscape is healing. A massive wall of water poured down ...

Every time I go back to visit Missouri, I like to look for a section of the Ozark Trail that I haven’t explored yet. My last visit to this beautiful state was no exception. The trail is over 430 miles ...

ST. LOUIS -- An Ameren Corp. vice president Wednesday accused the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the state Attorney General's office of playing "political football" while cleanup from ...

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At 1,772 feet, Taum Sauk mountain is the tallest place in Missouri. When you're that tall there is little protecting you. Evidence of that lies on the forest floor at the mountain's summit where there ...