Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is ...

Interstate 10 in the Baton Rouge metro area reopened to both eastbound and westbound traffic Thursday afternoon, the ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is critical.

Join the National Great River Museum for Mississippi Meanderings, featuring talks on music history and a performance by Trapper Haskins.

State and U.S. flags will be at half-staff in Mississippi to honor New Orleans terror attack victim, Jimmy Carter. Here's how ...

Full federal recognition for the Lumbees, the largest tribe east of the Mississippi River, is on the way from second-term Republican President Donald Trump.

Illinois, ready to choose a state flag? Voting is open in the the new state flag design contest. The public can vote online ...

The problem is also not wholly new. Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost over 5,179 square kilometers (2,000 square miles) of land – an area roughly the size of Delaware. However, the situation is ...

The project sets aside 20,000 acres of hardwood bottomland forests inside the Mississippi River Delta of northeastern Louisiana and western Mississippi.

Southern cities largely unfamiliar with snow and ice are getting creative in their efforts to clean up from this week's winter storm. Crews in New Orleans were using a “flusher” ...

The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the Army ... riverfront communities and federal and state agencies — who don’t always agree. Advocates lauded the law’s emphasis on nature ...