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 ...

The Mississippi River basin was soaked by a parade of ... It ended up being an unnecessary step, as upstream levee breaches reduced the flow of the river by the time it reached New Orleans.

With the Mississippi River flood now receding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cautions residents to stay off levee roads, or else emergency responders may have to come to their rescue. Vidalia ...

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

During high-water events like we're currently experiencing on the Lower Mississippi, rising river levels flood the batture, the strip of land between the river and the levee. The flooding drives ...

The St. Mary Levee Director preemptively closed a floodgate to protect Terrebonne and Lafourche from a swollen Mississippi River, which will reach flood levels for the first time since 2019.

Officials in Vicksburg and Warren County continue to prepare for flooding from the Mississippi ... Corps' Levee Safety program. Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. issued a State of Emergency earlier ...

According to officials, the project includes building a new 1.5-mile urban roadway along the top of the Mississippi River levee between Riverview Drive and 25th Avenue North. Officials said the ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing for the Mississippi ... because even though the river is technically in “flood,” it is still readily contained by the levee system.