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

Fifth Louisiana Levee District President Reynold Minsky said he already has triggered the flood fight as Mississippi River ...

The Corps of Engineers ran a test of the Bonnet Carre Spillway on Monday in preparation for the possibility it will have to ...

The Mississippi ... The river has been rising over the past couple months, which is common for the spring, as rainfall from storms in the Midwest and South trickle down to Louisiana.

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” ...