Rainfall amounts are down in the watershed of the Ohio River, which contributes half of the Mississippi’s flow reaching New Orleans. Another factor is dredging, according to Stephen Murphy ...

Credit: AP/Gerald Herbert At Vicksburg, Mississippi, north of New Orleans, the river flowed at a rate about 50% slower and at a stage height about 95% lower than normal during late September and ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

Read the latest: New Orleans officials seek to build a ... What happens upstream affects the flow rate at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The flow rate there needs to be above 300,000 cubic ...

Communities along the freshwater Mississippi River are facing a growing threat ... a desalination facility that could serve the greater New Orleans region." With an estimated $9 billion in annual ...

Officers responded to a call of a man on the bridge, who jumped over the guard rail into the Mississippi River.

At Vicksburg, Mississippi, north of New Orleans, the river flowed at a rate about 50% slower and at a stage height about 95% lower than normal during late September and early October between 2013 ...