A group of barges got off course on the Mississippi River Monday morning, with the front of one of the barges coming in ...

Parts of the pedestrian bridges that provided access to the Belle of Baton Rouge Casino from the levee are underwater. A ...

Marion Mayfield and Derek Fife talk about the upcoming "Star Wars Day' event at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum.

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

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

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

The bridges in question were originally constructed to connect the levee to the former Belle of Baton Rouge riverboat casino, allowing pedestrians easy access to the casino. The floating buoy system ...

The bridges were once used to allow people to walk from the levee to the former Belle of Baton Rouge riverboat casino on the river. The floating buoy, which stretched across the bottom of both bridges ...

It's hard to imagine where New Orleans would be today without the spillway. But despite all the good it has done, many in ...