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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) announces that both directions of I-110 in Baton Rouge will close tonight, May 30. Authorities are on the scene in the Broadmoor ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Army Corps of Engineers has initiated its Phase 1 flood fight, as the Mississippi River ... of 200 miles of river levees below Baton Rouge starting Thursday.

Many in the community feel that the Red Stick hasn’t done enough to capitalize on its status as a riverfront city.

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 ...