A federal judge in Mississippi ruled in two cases that his court didn’t have the authority to order the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete an environmental impact study on repeated openings of a ...

THE FLOODING STARTED WITH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN DECEMBER OF 2018, AND PERSISTED INTO THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR... THAT FLOODWATER WAS DIVERTED...CREATING MORE PROBLEMS FOR THE STATE... NOW ...

The U..S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided against opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway — welcome news for South Mississippi as Mississippi River water released through the spillway can degrade ...

The Army Corps of Engineers ignored its own operating manual when it twice opened a Mississippi River spillway in 2019, causing an environmental and economic disaster in Mississippi and Louisiana, ...

FILE - March 8, 2018 file photo, workers open the gates of the Bonnet Carre spillway, a river diversion structure, which diverts water from the rising Mississippi River, above right, to Lake ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS — The Mississippi River is ...

This satellite image of the lower Mississippi River delta on Saturday (April 27) shows both the remaining effects of sediment carried by water released during the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ran a test opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway Monday morning following weeks of rising Mississippi River waters that could prompt the floodway to be used for the ...

The Mississippi River at New Orleans is forecast to crest Saturday at slightly more than 14½ feet, well below the official flood stage of 17 feet and even farther below the 20- to 25-foot tops of ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) -The Army Corps of Engineers began closing bays of the Bonnet Carre spillway Monday morning. The spillway has been opened for 115 days in 2019. This marked the first time the ...

Mississippi will get $1.25 million to evaluate the effects of freshwater from a Louisiana spillway on dolphins and sea turtles in the Mississippi Sound.Gov. Phil Bryant said Friday that the money from ...