The closure of the 405-foot-long Bayou Chene floodgate is the first time the three-year-old structure has been used due to ...

After prolonged heavy rainfall upriver, Mississippi River nears flood stage in New Orleans. Corps begins levee checks and ...

Learn more about the Mississippi River Basin's wetlands from coastal Louisiana to the headwaters in Minnesota.

An emergency declaration has been issued in St. Mary Parish as water levels in the Atchafalaya River and Mississippi River are expected to rise due to flooding from Kentucky, Ohio, and Arkansas, ...

It is addressed not to Roy Carubba, the president of the board, but to Shane Guidry, Landry’s informal adviser in New Orleans, who is not on the levee authority’s board but has been overseeing ...

Among these natural wonders, swamps hold a unique position, teeming with life and draped in mystery. Perhaps the most infamous of these is the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana, often heralded as America ...

The Regional Water Quality Control Plant will supply treated wastewater to the city’s new horizontal levee. Embarcadero Media file photo by Veronica Weber. The newest levee in the Palo ...