A cloudy, rust-colored liquid plume, roughly the size of a football field, flowed into the Mississippi River last week out of a drainage pipe from the Atlantic Alumina refinery in the River Parishes.

The Gulf of America’s “dead zone” has shrunk significantly this summer, with scientists measuring a hypoxic area of just over 4,400 square miles — roughly a third smaller than last year and far less ...

New Orleans-based Bisso Towboat Co., a fifth-generation family-owned business that services ocean-going vessels along the Mississippi River, has been purchased by Connecticut-based Moran Towing Corp., ...

A Louisiana native formally took command of the Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans district on Friday, assuming a crucial job at a challenging moment while declaring he still bleeds purple and gold ...

Hurricane Idalia was one of the most destructive storms of 2023. It underwent rapid intensification in one day -- which may have been influenced by warmer fresh water rushing into the Gulf from North ...

A tropical disturbance is bringing heavy rain as it moves west through Louisiana and Mississippi. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. A cluster of thunderstorms that ...

A tropical disturbance near the northern Gulf Coast only has a small window for development, but poses a threat of flooding rainfall, particularly in Louisiana, regardless. The tropical disturbance, ...

Southeast Louisiana is abnormally dry. The top and bottom of the Mississippi River has had high streamflows this month, but about a quarter of gauges throughout the basin show below-normal flow.

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour stands before a wall-size satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it headed for landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. "The eye came in right there over the Pearl River, ...