Researchers say drought, sea level rise, severe storms and dredging are partly to blame for the increased in frequency and ...

The largest fish ever caught in the Mississippi was a 131-pound blue catfish caught by Eugene Cronley on April 7, 2022, near ...

What we're talking about is when the water gets exceptionally high, it also starts to move at a fairly quick pace down the Mississippi River, and it's actually the rate of flow, not so much the ...

Sunsets over ... “Great River.” It’s the second-longest river in the United States at 2,340 miles. (The Missouri River is approximately 100 miles longer.) The Mississippi River flows through ...

The Mississippi River was up to 80 miles wide in some areas of the floodplain due to over 140 breaches ... levee breaches reduced the flow of the river by the time it reached New Orleans.

(Staff Photo by David Grunfeld, The Times-Picayune) The spillway, located in St. Charles Parish, opens when the river flow rate hits ... a record amount of time. The Mississippi Sound Coalition ...

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is conducting a test opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Norco as the Mississippi River ... forecasted flow rate is just over that, so we ...

The spillway, located in St. Charles Parish, opens when the river flow rate hits 1.25 million ... to be opened twice for a record amount of time. The Mississippi Sound Coalition, representing ...

Alongside the Mississippi, officials are also monitoring the Atchafalaya River, which branches off from the Mississippi north of Baton Rouge and flows through ... in amount of time anticipated ...

He said that the question now is how long the spillway may need to divert river water into Lake Pontchartrain. "When we look at how the rate of flow has been going up over the past three to five ...

President Trump has repeatedly described the U.S.-Canada border as an "artificially drawn line." But experts say just because ...