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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.