Major diversion project features, including the inlet structure and Wild Rice River control structure, are in the final construction stages. Work is 30% complete on the Red River control structure, ...

America has an Achilles' heel. It lies on a quiet, unpopulated stretch of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, a few miles east of the tiny town of Simmesport. Rising up from the flat, wooded west ...

(WVUE) - The Mississippi River wants to break free of its levees and plot a shorter route to the Gulf of Mexico, bypassing New Orleans in favor of present-day Morgan City. The Old River Control ...

LETTSWORTH — If you drive out to the middle of nowhere and keep going, you can see where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is battling with the forces of nature. At the confluence of the Mississippi, ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Mississippi River is cresting earlier and lower than previously forecasted, reducing pressure on flood control infrastructure and eliminating, for now, the need to open the ...

North of New Roads and Morganza, a roughly 60-year-old collection of dams, channels, locks and guide levees has kept the Mississippi River from jumping its course and taking the steeper, more direct ...

The next Mississippi River mega flood in Louisiana could see its water overwhelm the Old River Control Structure above Baton Rouge and cause the river to switch its flow to the Atchafalaya River basin ...