The Mississippi River's rise is prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to test run the Bonnet Carre Spillway. Current ...

The break, known as Neptune Pass, has grown so large it is comparable to the 10th-largest river in North America and the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 ...

After prolonged heavy rainfall upriver, Mississippi River nears flood stage in New Orleans. Corps begins levee checks and ...

Ian Somerhalder has roots in the Bayou of Louisiana and comes from generations of Southern farmers. Somerhalder says he was ...

The seeds of America's most destructive flood were planted the previous summer, but it shifted into higher gear this week in ...

Periodical cicada Brood XIV will be emerging soon this spring in 12 states. When will cicadas emerge in Louisiana? What kinds ...

A convicted child murderer whose death sentence was commuted by former President Biden during his last weeks in office has ...

A mammoth break in the Mississippi River’s banks far south ... indicate the potential for man-made diversions to help restore Louisiana’s coast. Such diversions seek to mimic how south ...

A federal judge has ordered that a Tufts University student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities in March ...

Louisiana Congresswoman Julia Letlow's 5th Congressional District boundaries underwent a radical change with redistricting.

While the science is clear – wetlands have lots of benefits and we know how to build more of them – the future is not. The ...