In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta's Yazoo Backwater. It took more than six months to recede. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on a pumping ...

Congress has approved funding for the Army Corps of Engineers to study how the Mississippi River is changing ...

Reporting by this newspaper’s Mike Smith reminds us that for the health and economy of Louisiana, the single biggest imperative is to keep the Mississippi River on course. Federal and state officials, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A group of barges got off course on the Mississippi River Monday morning, with the front of one of the barges coming in contact with the levee. It happened near Skip Bertman ...