Following months of resignations and heated debates, the New Orleans area flood protection agency met in a notably calm ...

She talks with Army Corp, who are racing to alleviate the issue. A saltwater wedge in the Mississippi River is moving toward New Orleans much slower than expected, officials said Thursday.

State and federal officials should be working overtime to study numerous issues related to management of the Mississippi ...

Barges float in the Mississippi River as a portion of the riverbed is exposed on September 15 in St. Louis. - Jeff Roberson/AP ...

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A Tulane University study this year found that water losses from the main Mississippi River channel from New Orleans to the Gulf have increased by 25% since 2004 due in part to bank failures.

"Even during the Civil War the ships were running," she said. Maloy said that in its pre-Civil War heyday, there were about 1,200 to 1,500 river steamboats sailing in and out of New Orleans every ...

Drought farther up the Mississippi and its tributaries is why the river has remained so low, Corps spokesperson Matt Roe said in an email. The river is deeper than the Gulf of Mexico almost to Natchez ...

A saltwater wedge in the Mississippi River is moving toward New Orleans much slower than expected, officials said Thursday. The Army Corps of Engineers previously estimated that New Orleans was ...