The flood defence scheme, named Our City Our River, is aimed at protecting the area which last experienced serious floods in 2007.
It turns out we have plenty of fertile, prehistoric fish right here in River City.
But in River City, Iowa, Hill falls in love with the librarian and decides to stick around and face the consequences.
Water held in the reservoir, upstream of the city on the River Laver at Birkby Nab farm, will gradually drain away downstream.
We're about 2, 000 miles upstream from the Atlantic Ocean and more than 600 miles past Kisingani, the last significant city on the river.
In Chicago, where I live, the city dyes the river green, parades get scandalous and the entire town toddles around in green clothes and Mardi Gras beads.
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Are people demanding that River City replaces Eastenders in prime-time?
Cesar Castellanos, the popular mayor of Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, gave warning that a temporary lake formed above the city by debris in the Choluteca river might flood the city centre.
For a chance to dine inside a gingerbread house Hansel and Gretel style, the River City Casino and the Lumiere Place Casino and Hotel in St Louis, Missouri have both built 140sqft gingerbread houses in their restaurants.
Mr. STEVE SMITH(ph) (Owner, Royale): I'm sure it was a little bit fast and loose, more loose than it had been done, but I'm sure it's actually probably more in the proud tradition of this sort of roughneck River City that we're in.
But what we had even then was a group of students here at George Mason -- (applause) -- who believed that if we worked hard enough and if we fought long enough, if we organized enough supporters, then we could finally bring change to that city across the river. (Applause.) We believed that despite all the resistance, we could make Washington work.
In the New Jersey city of Hoboken, across the Hudson River from New York City, the National Guard has arrived to evacuate about 20, 000 people and distribute meals.
All that remains unresolved is a small stretch along the Amur River near the Russian city of Khabarovsk, where three small river islands, no more than 12 sq km in total, are not yet covered by treaty.
Most at risk is Ho Chi Minh City on the Saigon river, just north of the Mekong.
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Fort Santiago, once the guarding fortress of the city and the Pasig River, is now a war memorial.
The brutal truth is, Washington's finest natural asset, thousands of cherry trees, currently blossoming in shades of white and pink, are being destroyed by two rogue rodents seemingly intent on building a dam across this city's Potomac River.
They showed that the levees along a navigation channel east of the city, known as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, sank at five-times the average rate for the rest of the city.
Situated on the Chao Phraya River, the city vibrates with endless traffic jams, as tuk tuks, cars and buses fill the roads daily.
Across the Hudson River, Jersey City and Hoboken officials said their cities were inundated and requested emergency help from the state.
On 30 October, the cube-shaped St Regis Tianjin opens on the banks of the Hai River in this city 110km southeast of Beijing.
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Yuki-tsumugi is a Japanese silk-weaving technique found principally in Yuki City and Oyama City, along the Kinu River, north of Tokyo.
William Tyler, a descendant of President John Tyler, runs Sherwood Forest, the family plantation on the James River in Charles City, Va.
In a Ho Chi Minh City office near the Saigon River, I interviewed another Vietnamese entrepreneur with a story that has echoes of China start-ups in it.
Louis and across the Mississippi River, the city of Roxana was hit by an EF3 tornado, but National Weather Service meteorologist Jayson Gosselin said it wasn't clear whether the damage in both states came from the same EF3 twister or separate ones.
As the wide sweep of the Neretva river runs down from the high ground, it enters the city of Mostar where it narrows between steep-sided river banks.
The landslides hit the city of Petropolis, about 40 miles (65km) north of Rio, after a river burst its banks and flooded the city centre.
Developers and city officials are looking to the River Garden apartments as a model.
Growing up in Fall River, a poor city in southern Massachusetts, he got into fistfights on his way to Catholic school.
Many athletes who play in the city prefer to live across the river in New Jersey or secluded in leafy suburbs.
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