A reader asked, "How many bridges cross the Mississippi River in Louisiana?" Rodney Mallett, communications director for Louisiana's Department of Transportation and Development, confirms that the ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a five-story series that will examine the slow progress being made on reducing harmful agricultural runoff from the Mississippi River basin, which causes a ...

Army Corps, for fourth consecutive year, authorizes an underwater dam to keep salt water from moving up the Mississippi River in Louisiana. ● A cold-water flow experiment at Glen Canyon Dam to disrupt ...

Louisiana officials have canceled another major coastal restoration project — the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion on the east ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A natural diversion of the Mississippi River is creating new land in Louisiana, offering insights into coastal restoration efforts. Scientists have identified a ...

NEW ORLEANS - As the Mississippi River is forecast to hit record lows during the current extreme drought, impacting the drinking water in southeast Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards requested a federal ...