Tributaries are also backing up because the Mississippi is so high there is no place for the water to go. He said there is no reason to believe a levee on the Yazoo River would fail, but if it did ...

NEW ORLEANS — Ducks have taken roost on a sandy strip along the Mississippi River — a bank that's typically underwater. "We have this nice little beach here that Black-bellied whistling ducks ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers has launched construction on a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee in the Mississippi River to prevent ... sea level is rising along the coasts. These two impacts ...

Becnel’s nursery, which has been in his family for six generations, sits on the banks of the Mississippi River near Belle Chasse, La ... levee, or sill, to try to slow the saltwater from moving ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Army Corps of Engineers has initiated its Phase 1 flood fight, as the Mississippi River rises to somewhat normal late-spring levels. Weather watchers say the prognosis is ...

The system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and redone following Hurricane ...

The river rose above 11 feet at the Carrollton gauge, prompting a response from the Army Corps to work with local levee officials and begin precautionary patrols of levees along the Mississippi ...

an 11-foot alligator created quite a spectacle swimming along the levee in Old Jefferson. During high-water events like we're currently experiencing on the Lower Mississippi, rising river levels ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Along the banks ... treasure.” The Mississippi River is at its lowest level since 1992. That has treasure hunters like Ford scouring the lower levee looking for ...

People walking along the Mississippi River levee in Baton Rouge are used to seeing the USS Kidd — but usually not its underbelly. The WWII destroyer has been sitting high and dry in recent ...

NEW ORLEANS — Ducks have taken roost on a sandy strip along the ... looked out from the river levee. More than a third of the rain in the United States ends up in the Mississippi River system.

The river rose above 11 feet at the Carrollton gauge, prompting a response from the Army Corps to work with local levee officials and begin precautionary patrols of levees along the Mississippi twice ...