The Mississippi River Levee Path, one of the Baton Rouge area's most scenic and popular routes for walking, jogging and bicycling, will soon get a major expansion. The East Baton Rouge Metro ...

The Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center ... safely into an interior drainage system -- in a river levee just south of downtown Baton Rouge.

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 ...

With the Mississippi River falling below flood stage after months of high water, Baton Rouge city-parish workers on Thursday began power-washing the downtown levee front and pier of river silt and ...

There’s a small area along the Mississippi River where the land and buildings are covered with the same rust-colored mineral ...

Chris Bonura, a spokesman for the Port of New Orleans, said the Coast Guard plans to close a 190-mile stretch of river from Baton Rouge to the ... The mouth of the Mississippi would become a ...

Authorities in southern Illinois urged residents living behind a levee ... River water topped it. The Len Small levee in the far southwestern tip of Illinois protects the towns of Olive Branch ...

Swollen by unseasonal Midwest rainfall during the past month, the Mississippi River is ... Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes. Both the east bank and West Bank regional levee authorities also ...

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 ...

There are flood warnings for Baton Rouge, for Donaldsonville. So up and down the Mississippi ... the river is technically in “flood,” it is still readily contained by the levee system.

The Mississippi carries far less reverence than other iconic water bodies across the U.S., and it has consequences that affect everyone living in the basin.