The Corps has not yet announced whether the agency will open the spillway, and says they are monitoring the forecast before ...

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 ...

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

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

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