Recent heavy rains have sparked flooding concerns from Shreveport to Alexandria along the Red River. These same rains have officials in Baton Rouge and New Orleans keeping a close eye on the Mississippi River as well.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard said vessels along the Mississippi River were weathering Tropical Storm Isaac early Thursday and there were no reports of loose barges.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Tippets said the river remained closed to shipping...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A small breach on the marsh-covered east bank of the Mississippi River south of New Orleans is giving rise to calls to let the river run wild.
The debate centers on a 77-foot-wide channel the river carved through a levee road in the unused Bohemia spillway in Plaquemines Parish, about 45 miles south of New Orleans...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Baton Rouge police say officers shot and killed a man who refused to drop a gun after a chase across the Mississippi River into West Baton Rouge Parish. Sgt. Donald Stone says the chase began when a driver ignored a traffic stop...
Authorities have released the name of a man who jumped Monday from the Crescent City Connection Bridge that joins the east and west banks of New Orleans. The Orleans Corner's Office says Heath Schubert died from blunt-force trauma to his head and chest when he hit the bridge and drowned in the Mississippi River...
A man had to be rescued last night after he fell off the "Norwegian Spirit" cruise ship as it traveled along the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish downstream from New Orleans.
The final open bays of the Bonnet Carre Spillway that dumps Mississippi River water into Lake Pontchartrain were closed this morning by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.