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

Dawn came Sunday with a steady drizzle as Jackson, Mississippi, braced for the the most severe flooding the area has seen in nearly four decades. By 7:15 a.m. local time, the Pearl River ...

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

FEMA cuts could worsen Mississippi River flooding and harm the ecosystem. Shifting disaster recovery costs to states may be untenable due to their financial situations. Unregulated development in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...