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These are the emerging challenges Louisiana and the nation are struggling to content with on the lower Mississippi River.
VIDALIA, La. — With the Mississippi River flood now receding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cautions residents to stay off levee roads, or else emergency responders may have to come to their ...
The Mississippi River reached its highest level of the spring season in Baton Rouge on Thursday ... it’s well below the height of the levee system designed to protect Southeast Louisiana ...
The Mississippi River reached its highest level of the spring season in Baton Rouge on Thursday, confirming forecasts ... as “major flooding,” it’s well below the height of the levee system designed ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — An interactive dashboard from the county of San Diego showing up-to-date information on environmental impacts of the Tijuana River sewage crisis is now live. The ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The United States Coast Guard is investigating a vessel collision on the Lower Mississippi River that sunk a barge. According to guardsmen, around 9:20 p.m. on Sunday ...
If the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opens the Bonnet Carré Spillway later this week to relieve the threat of Mississippi River flooding in and around New Orleans, at least one aspect of a century ...
Model of the lower Mississippi River at the River Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in October 2023. (Sabrina Canfield/ Courthouse News Service) JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge ...
During high-water events like we're currently experiencing on the Lower Mississippi, rising river levels flood the batture, the strip of land between the river and the levee. The flooding drives ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A group of barges got off course on the Mississippi River Monday morning, with the front of one of the barges coming in contact with the levee. It happened near Skip ...
The biggest change will be humidity levels. The East Baton Rouge Parish School system is taking steps to improving how your student gets to and from school every day.
ParkZen, a Baton Rouge tech startup that helps drivers find ... hunt for parking spaces in the same way that Waze or Apple’s maps help them avoid traffic snarls. The company’s customers ...