The Mississippi River reached its highest level of the spring season in Baton Rouge on Thursday, confirming forecasts of ...

The U.S. Coast Guard responded to the incident, which comes during a period of elevated river levels "contributing to ...

Monday, an 11-foot alligator created quite a spectacle swimming along the levee in Old Jefferson. During high-water events ...

NEW ORLEANS ... along the Mississippi River, the barriers were holding against the battering waves that Gustav brought to southeastern Louisiana. The private levee near Braithwaite, about 20 ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing for the Mississippi River to reach some of its highest water levels in recent ...

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually ... yards across a road. 12. While the pressure on the levee walls in ...

Zoom in: The river is currently expected to crest in New Orleans on April 25 at 16.5 feet, the Corps says. The crest is expected to last about a day at the Carrollton Gage and then begin to fall.

A Frenchman visiting the Mississippi River near what would ... A breach in the levee on the east bank of the Mississippi 18 miles above New Orleans does an "immense amount of damage," they write ...

As the river swelled, Louisiana officials grew increasingly concerned that the levee system protecting New Orleans could break, flooding the city and causing potentially catastrophic damage.