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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has activated the second phase of its flood fight plan for the Mississippi River.

The Mississippi will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise,” Mark Twain wrote in the ...

The Mississippi River is approaching levels that could trigger a full operation for the first time in four years.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing for the Mississippi River to reach some of its highest water levels in recent ...

From the site of the nation's largest slave revolt, the Banner sisters continue a legacy of environmental and cultural resistance.

As the Mississippi River continues to rise, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted a test opening of the Bonnet Carré ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons ...

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