Spillway solution Although diverting floodwaters from the Mississippi down the Atchafalaya instead of opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway sounds like a good way around dumping fresh water in the ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A group of more than 20 fishermen, led by Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United Inc., a nonprofit trade organization, are suing the state over its attempts to lease ...

NOLA OMG FOOD FEST: The world’s first hip hop food festival, to be held May 17, 1-8 p.m., at Congo Square in Louis Armstrong ...

The Mississippi River crested in New Orleans this week, capping an anxious period for the engineers and residents who live ...

Private companies, the lawsuit says, will have a ‘virtual monopoly’ on state oyster reefs that have for centuries been open ...

The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources has been distributing its funding via the Mississippi Bonnet Carré Spillway Fisheries Disaster Recovery Program since 2023; already, the state has sent ...

The Mississippi River reached its highest level of the spring season in Baton Rouge on Thursday, confirming forecasts of ...

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (WLOX) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the Mississippi River has to rise to 1.25 million cubic ...