The Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts are the latest factor. But funding concerns date back to Biden’s term, when ...

President Trump is not the first to downplay providing federal emergency relief. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, ...

Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority – West (SLFPA-W) Board President Scott M. Burke has been reappointed for a ...

Minsky said the levee offers protection of at least 58 feet, considerably higher than Vicksburg's projected crest of 47.5 feet on April 21. "There's no need for alarm, but we have to be vigilant ...

In total, the federal government footed the bill for the $39.46 million project via various congressional appropriations. The ...

This summer marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1,300 people dead and ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, in partnership with the Wood River Drainage and Levee District, held a ...

Five years prior, the sandbag levee protecting his family home failed ... but this part of Mississippi is prone to flooding. When the Mississippi River is at flood stage, the Steele Bayou drainage ...

“Over here on this side of the levee is a totally wild landscape in which we’re a visitor,” said Ruskey, digging his toes into a sandbar in the middle of the river. To him, the Mississippi is “a ...

Thousands of people lined downtown streets, parking lots, and levees and poured into Riverfront Park for Thursday's annual Alton fireworks on the Mississippi River. On Wednesday, Alton Public Works ...