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

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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin daily levee patrols from Baton Rouge to Venice as the Mississippi River is ...

Authorities allege Da’Sean Conley, 17, beat Gerard Nicholas Richard, then shot and killed him during a Feb. 12 argument ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing for the Mississippi River to reach some of its highest water levels in recent ...

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

In an 11th hour tax-reform provision included in House Bill 10, $280 million from vehicle sales taxes will be redirected to the general fund, delaying infrastructure projects such as the Interstate 49 ...