Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands since the 1930s. A Baton Rouge Magnet High student is studying the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD ... at the intersection of Brightside and River Road. Washington exited the roadway and traveled to the top of the levee, which caused his car to be airborne.

ST. JAMES PARISH, La. (WVUE) - The skies over the River Parishes will glow Tuesday night (Dec. 24) as dozens of towering bonfires light up the levees along the Mississippi River, continuing a ...

They also served the lowland Louisiana side. The Mississippi River left natural levees, creating backswamp areas dividing the region into what was called "front lands" and "back lands." ...

A Frenchman visiting the Mississippi River near what would become New Orleans writes, "This last summer I examined better than I had yet done all the lands in the vicinity of this river.

Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles ... we started engineering the river.” People built levees which prevented the river from flooding its banks, Willson said. This confined the river between ...