Another flood the following year convinces the federal government to grant monies to build a continuous levee system. The worst flood in the Mississippi River up until this time opens more than ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River ... levees constrain the river to protect communities and valuable farmland from flooding — and some levee districts have raised those levees higher ...

of inflated memory," and, speaking of indifference which attended the discovery of the Mississippi, remarks, "Apparently, nobody happened to want such a river ... at the levee or in the business ...

April 10 (UPI) --A Mississippi county on Wednesday warned of a levee break on a lake ... Service also warned of some flooding ...

A Kenner man was arrested wearing nothing but a towel after Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office investigators say he attacked and raped a woman who was walking in the snow on a River Ridge levee ...

Weeks of rainfall have fed high waters in the Mississippi River, which is lined with a levee that keeps those waters contained. Meanwhile, the Yazoo Backwater Levee also protects thousands of ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is critical as the river basin sees more frequent ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece ... North of St. Louis, for example, levees constrain the river to protect communities and valuable farmland from flooding — and some levee ...