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

Flooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher rate than the U.S. as a whole, according to data provided exclusively to The Associated Press by th ...

According to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, 326 homes were damaged ... the Mississippi River and some tributaries are expected to reach flood levels in coming days in Mississippi.

The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the ... most of which are family homes. The St. Tammany Flood Risk Management Project is slated to receive $3.7 billion in federal funding.

Towns repeatedly hit by floods have forced some people to leave and cut into the sense of community. For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes | Nation & World News ...

Mississippi experienced catastrophic flooding in 2019, with its namesake river rising up to a height of 50 feet in ... of up to 25% on flood mitigation projects, such as elevating homes or installing ...

The Mississippi River is a critical transportation ... counties have begun closing roads and building temporary flood walls to protect homes and businesses. "We are going to have numerous streets ...

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

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 ...

Mississippi experienced catastrophic flooding in 2019, with its namesake river rising up to a height ... such as elevating homes or installing flood proofing, a way to curb the worst effects ...