For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

Anderson Jones had something to be grateful for. He finally made it home. Five years prior, the sandbag levee protecting his ...

An April report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group named the Mississippi River as the most endangered in the United ...

Every time the U.S. Corps of Engineers opens the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Louisiana to deal with Mississippi River flooding, it’s an environmental and economic disaster for our Mississippi Sound. The ...

A prolonged and dangerous flood event is unfolding along the Mississippi River, where heavy rain that fell this month across the Ohio and Mississippi river basins have pushed the waterway to ...

ALTON The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, in partnership with the Wood River Drainage and Levee District, ...

forcing some to evacuate while others downstream stacked sandbag walls and closed off flood-prone areas. Communities along the Upper Mississippi River scrambled Wednesday as the always-massive ...

Storms and subsequent flooding in Mississippi have damaged hundreds of homes, injured seven and killed one. The Mississippi River is expected to reach flood levels in the coming days, impacting ...

The small but resilient city of Clarksville continues its fight against the Mississippi River. On Monday, Clarksville started ...

To John Ruskey, the Mississippi River is “a creative force” that sculpts the landscape and rejuvenates the people who ...