Mayors meeting in Baton Rouge say drought policy and funding to address drinking water issues needed for Mississippi River ...

Leaders from towns and cities all along the Mississippi River want the next administration to prioritize protecting the flow ...

For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt ...

Construction has begun on a saltwater sill near Myrtle Grove to help mitigate the effects of saltwater intrusion up the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a construction ...

Hundreds of thousands of customers were without power Thursday in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, a day after Francine ...

Work has begun on an underwater levee to block salt water advancing up the Mississippi River and ... flow of saltwater up the Mississippi River south of New Orleans on Tuesday, September 26 ...

BUT YOU WILL LOOK AT THOSE SMALLER CHANCES OF RAIN STARTING TO MOVE IN A NEW ORLEANS AREA ... working on an underwater sill across the Mississippi River channel to further the upriver progression ...

The area south of St. Louis has been hit especially hard, mirroring low-water concerns that began around this same time of ...

New Orleans rests just up the Mississippi River from Louisiana’s marshy southeastern coast. It is a region shaped by the Mississippi River, which deposited sediment that formed strips of higher ...

The Mississippi River Ports Cooperative Endeavor Agreement unites the ... The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents ...

Since then, the river level has dropped steadily ... About 60% of U.S. grain exports are taken by barge down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where the corn, soybeans and wheat is stored and ...