The Mississippi will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise,” Mark Twain wrote in the ...

multibillion-dollar bridge project, which is expected to ease traffic in Baton Rouge and the West Mississippi River bank, as well as deliver an economic boost to Plaquemine and Iberville Parish.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - As of 4 a.m. Wednesday, the “new bridge” over the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to Port Allen was still closed in both directions. However, the “old bridge ...

The Corps has not yet announced whether the agency will open the spillway, and says they are monitoring the forecast before ...

The Mississippi River's rise is prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to test run the Bonnet Carre Spillway. Current ...

The Army Corps of Engineers began testing the spillway Monday in the event of a partial opening later this week.

On Wednesday, WBRZ reported that the coroner's office confirmed the identity of the body found as 24-year-old Dallas, Texas ...

The Mississippi ... the impacts as the river rises and begins to get up against the levees." The river will reach flood stage from the Arkansas line to Baton Rouge beginning Saturday at the ...

Kori Gauthier, 18, went missing on April 7, and her car was found on top of the Mississippi River bridge when it was struck by another vehicle, the university said social media Digital News Writer ...

It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in ... Memphis, Tenn.; and Baton Rouge and New Orleans, La. What kinds of fish are in the Mississippi?