River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...

More than 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain fell in some areas, outpacing its drainage system ... New Orleans rests just up the Mississippi River from Louisiana’s marshy southeastern coast.

Salt water in southeast Louisiana has become a regular occurrence in recent years, as the mighty flow of the Mississippi ...

(Louisiana Illuminator) – Construction has begun on a saltwater sill near Myrtle Grove to help mitigate the effects of saltwater intrusion up the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army Corps of ...

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in St. Paul early Aug. 19, 2009. (John Doman / Pioneer Press) Wondering how long the Mississippi ...

One of Harold Fisk’s famed 1944 maps of the Mississippi. You can find Boyce’s new book, The Great River, at your local bookstore or online. The 2018 study which attributed increased ...

Work has begun on an underwater levee to block salt water advancing up the Mississippi River and threatening southeast Louisiana drinking water supplies for the third year in a row, the Army Corps ...

SO THAT’S SOME GOOD NEWS. AGAIN, COUPLE COASTA The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun working on an underwater sill across the Mississippi River channel to further the upriver progression of ...

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State football was booed by its own crowd on Saturday, three games into the tenure of new coach Jeff Lebby. It was a repercussion of just how terrible Mississippi ...

Francine weakened into a post-tropical cyclone Thursday afternoon as it moved north across Mississippi ... sits on the banks of the Atchafalaya River in south Louisiana and is surrounded by ...

Construction has begun on a saltwater sill near Myrtle Grove to help mitigate the effects of saltwater intrusion up the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a construction ...

For the third consecutive year, Mississippi River water levels are falling again, making shipping goods difficult. Farm Policy News says the low levels are forcing barge companies to put limits on how ...