Keywords Mississippi Valley, settlement, Louisiana Purchase, mass migration ... gotten their due ‘If they get away with this, no river will be safe’: The locals fighting to save the River ...

The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size ... which stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. And the price, $15 million, or about ...

A mammoth break in the Mississippi ... to help restore Louisiana’s coast. Such diversions seek to mimic how south Louisiana was formed thousands of years ago, when the river ran free, depositing ...

Storms in parts of the South and Midwest have caused the river to swell. The Corps is eyeing it, though current projections ...

The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to ...

From New Orleans to Morgan City, Louisiana is stepping up levee patrols and flood control efforts as the Mississippi River continues to rise.

After prolonged heavy rainfall upriver, Mississippi River nears flood stage in New Orleans. Corps begins levee checks and ...