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

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

Hurricane Katrina was a chapter in the history of man's struggle both to control nature and to accept what he cannot control.

Now the Port of New Orleans has signed a cooperative endeavor agreement with the ports of South Louisiana, St. Bernard, Plaquemines Parish and Baton Rouge, enabling the shipping facilities to join ...

Areas near the airport, along floodwalls, and in nearby wetlands are subsiding because of a combination of natural and ...

The city of New Orleans Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board will be conducting adult mosquito abatement Friday night.

A tropical wave could develop storms in the Gulf that could track into Louisiana while another round of heat returns for the weekend ...

Amtrak’s Mardi Gras service brings train travel back to the Gulf Coast, with stops in four Mississippi beach towns along the ...

High water on the Mississippi River is bringing more tourists to town. Dave Kirk, destination management director for the-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau, said Wednesday that the Viking ...

Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, is one of the deadliest and most destructive storms in U.S. history. New Orleans, the Mississippi River city near the Gulf of ...

Under the proposal, American Cruise Lines would clear a demolished dock on the levee and build a new one in its place.