A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

"Can you give me an idea of what train lines used these tracks?" Jon A. Russo asked Curious Louisiana. "Just when was the ...

The federal government and Corps began extensively fixing the river in place through a system of levees after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 inundated 27,000 square miles. The levees ...

Those rushing waters from what would become known as the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 also took out the Atchafalaya bridge. Southern Pacific opted not to replace it. "But even after the flood ...

Editorial: House Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump should not be so keen on a diminution of the federal ...

Cassidy offered a history lesson dating all the way to the great Mississippi River flood of 1927, when the state was overwhelmed by the devastation. "So we have a lot of examples where we know ...

Given its proximity to the river, flooding used to be a common problem for the city, with the first major flood occurring in 1890. It wasn't until 1927 and the Great Mississippi River Flood that ...

and into the lower Mississippi. Floods of America’s great rivers can and have occurred in every month of the year, but the 1937 flood was made severe when in the third and fourth weeks of ...