Natchez also is home to several historic churches, art galleries, restaurants and live music venues, plus the Magnolia Bluffs ...

James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” ...

About 100 years ago, a steamboat capsized in the Mississippi River — a disaster that forced dozens of men, women and children ...

In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana burst into flames along the ...

His 2023 book, “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction, and his book, “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the ...

McKellar Lake acts as a collection point for debris that would otherwise flow into the Mississippi River and possibly the Atlantic Ocean. College students spending spring break by a body of water ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - With the Mississippi River projected to rise above 15 feet at the Carrollton Gage on Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, has activated Phase II of ...

History is written on the flood wall that protects St. Paul’s low-lying West Side from the Mississippi River. Just east of the Robert Street Bridge, a thin black line marks the crest of the ...

ST. CHARLES PARISH, La. — With the Mississippi River rising and heavy rainfall upstream, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct a test opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway on Monday ...

Officials in Vicksburg and Warren County continue to prepare for flooding from the Mississippi River. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as of Friday morning, the ...

The latest forecast from the National Weather Service shows the Mississippi River nearing the threshold for opening. The Bonnet Carré Spillway is designed to divert excess river water into Lake ...

Austen Goslin (he/him) is an entertainment editor. He writes about the latest TV shows and movies, and particularly loves all things horror. The story takes place a few years before the American ...