Members of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative agree FEMA doesn’t always meet their needs. But they don’t want ...

Senators Wicker and Hyde-Smith signed a letter that calls for halting further Risk Rating 2.0 premium increases and demanding ...

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

A congressional tour of the National Weather Service Quad Cities forecasting office revealed a skeleton crew trying to keep ...

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

Flooding could remain a concern for several states currently dealing with the excessive rainfall. According to the NWS ...

So we have had a lot of localized flooding and a little bit of flash flooding," Weeden said. "We been pretty lucky with river flooding. We haven't had that much river flooding, but it's been more ...

Mississippi ... shipping channel at the river's end to reach major ports that handle 18% of U.S. waterborne commerce. For almost 100 years, levees and other human-made flood control structures ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf. NEW ORLEANS, La. – ...

The bridge over the Mississippi ... current bridge and construction work on that new structure is also being halted. The bridge was closed for a similar reason in February and March of 2024. The ...

Communities across Washington County are cleaning up after a weekend of severe rainfall led to flooding in several areas. One of the hardest-hit of those communities was Waitsfield. On Saturday ...

LANSING, Iowa (WXOW) – The Mississippi River Bridge connecting Iowa Highway 9 and Wisconsin Highway 82 is currently closed after a monitoring system detected movement in one of the piers that ...