Louisiana could see "generational" flood threats as a result of excessive rain expected in the U.S., causing runoff to move ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The body of a missing person was found near the Mississippi River levee on Thursday. According to the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Office, at around 6 p ...

The Black River has overtopped a levee, causing flooding in Butler County, but no breaches have been reported. Officials are ...

It's not clear what Gov. Jeff Landry's end game is as he tries to make drastic changes to the flood protection authority that ...

POINTE COUPEE, La. (WAFB) - Officials are still working to determine the cause of death for a man who was found dead in the ...

The Anchorage railroad landing on the levee along La. 415, the River Road, in West Baton Rouge Parish, to which trains were once ferried across the Mississippi River to continue their journeys ...

HELENA-WEST HELENA -- Levee project funding and protections from levee slides were the chief concerns of Arkansans on Tuesday at the Corps of Engineers' annual Mississippi River Commission high ...

They needed a more advanced levee system, and for that they turned to the federal government. In 1879 Congress created the Mississippi River Commission to oversee federal funds for flood control.

Another flood the following year convinces the federal government to grant monies to build a continuous levee system. The worst flood in the Mississippi River up until this time opens more than ...

Opinion: Gov. Jeff Landry and businessman Shane Guidry are busy in trying to reverse reforms that professionalized and ...

WATCH: Severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings pepper the Mid-South ahead of main line of extreme weather ...