Storms in parts of the South and Midwest have caused the river to swell. The Corps is eyeing it, though current projections ...

After prolonged heavy rainfall upriver, Mississippi River nears flood stage in New Orleans. Corps begins levee checks and ...

The seeds of America's most destructive flood were planted the previous summer, but it shifted into higher gear this week in ...

Fifth Louisiana Levee District President Reynold Minsky said he already has triggered the flood fight as Mississippi River ...

The decision halts nearly all work related to the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, which has been planned and studied for ...

It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

which severely inundated Louisiana communities. It has been opened 15 times, including twice in 2019 due to heavy rains that year in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. The river rises in the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - An investigation is underway after a body was discovered in the Mississippi River on Tuesday morning. The East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office confirmed that investigators ...

A body was found in the Mississippi River near the city dock near the Belle of Baton Rouge downtown on Tuesday morning, ...

The lawsuit against Chevron was filed in 2013 by Plaquemines Parish, a rural district in Louisiana straddling the final leg of the Mississippi River heading into the Gulf of Mexico, also referred ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Power has been knocked out for thousands of customers across Louisiana and Mississippi. The outages happened as storms impacted residents on Saturday, March 15.