Mayors from 10 states along the Mississippi River convened in Louisiana’s capital this week to announce a cooperative ...

Climatologists say it could be part of a larger trend. For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest ...

A map of the Mississippi River basin and the river’s major tributaries. (Annie Ropeik, Ag & Water Desk/Data via U.S.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana's drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third year ...

Remnants of Hurricane Francine produced significant rains across the northern Delta and Tennessee River basin, but World Weather Inc. says water levels on the lower Mississippi river will rise for ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana’s drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico. Brackish ...