Portions of several major interstates and two major bridges over the Mississippi River remained closed due to icy conditions on Friday.INTERSTATESINTERSTATE 12: OPENINTERSTATE 10: OPEN in both ...

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

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

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

Art Hounds recommend “The River Connects Us,” “Loudly, Clearly, Beautifully” and Minnesota State High School League one-act plays ...

Great Lakes Fact or Fake? is a new book by Dave Dempsey. Below are adapted excerpts from the book, which bring readers along while he answers 41 myths about the Great Lakes. FACT or FAKE? There was a ...

NEW ORLEANS — A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and ...

As of 4 a.m. Wednesday, the “new bridge” over the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to Port Allen was still closed in both ...

The Water Resources Development Act was signed into law on Jan. 4 and includes studies on increased flooding in the upper Mississippi basin.

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