Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is ...

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

The panel, led by Mississippi River Basin Panel administrator Elizabeth Brown, works to prevent invasive species like algae from entering the region.

Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands since the 1930s. A Baton Rouge Magnet High student is studying the ...

Waterfront Alliance has launched a two-year initiative to improve resilience for waterfront development along the Mississippi ...

LSU students were out Tuesday afternoon on top of the levee sliding down both ways enjoying the weather. LSU officials announced school closures into Thursday. Pam Bondi freezes DOJ funding for ...

The federal government and Corps began extensively fixing the river in place through a system of levees after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 inundated 27,000 square miles. The levees ...

The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the Army ... North of St. Louis, for example, levees constrain the river to protect communities and valuable farmland from flooding — and ...

It required 80-plus years of wrangling with agencies of the federal government, but an agreement appears to be in place to ...