During the course of this call deputies arrested Justin Parker, 38, of Rienzi, and charged him with aggravated domestic violence.

But the state recommends avoiding the water during advisories, and the enduring annoyance has already appeared on more than a dozen Mississippi Coast shorelines this year. Eight beaches from Pass ...

Mississippi’s state health department did not adequately enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act in Jackson, contributing to the 2022 crisis that left 150,000 residents without drinking water ...

The Lower Mississippi flows from the Ohio River to where it ends in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the National Park Service, the speed of the water increases with the size and depth of the river.

In its investigation of Jackson, Mississippi water crisis, the Environmental Protection Agency found insufficient evidence that the choices of two Mississippi agencies’ choices, the department ...

State lawmakers are considering legislation that would create a utility authority to oversee Jackson's beleaguered water system. The Mississippi Senate Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency ...

Sandra Henson died on February 8 at the age of 57 in Rienzi, Mississippi. Henson was charged with stealing gifts and money from weddings in Florence and Tuscumbia in 2019. She pled guilty in ...

The following year, at the height of Mississippi’s sweltering summer in August 2022, it would all happen again. Each time Jackson faced a water crisis, local and state leaders cast blame in ...

2:25 PM: Standing water covering large portion of Rienzi Drive in Thibodaux ... has been issued for parts of southeast Louisiana and Mississippi on Wednesday afternoon. The first warning issued ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews use dredges and pipes to move silt onto an underwater sill along the bottom of the Mississippi River on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, about 20 miles downriver from New ...

One year after the water system in Jackson, Mississippi, failed during heavy flooding — precipitating one of the highest-profile municipal public health crises in recent U.S. history ...