River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...

Last year, the salt water forced some residents in lower Plaquemines to go for months using only bottled or trucked-in water.

Most of the middle two-thirds of the Corn Belt is now the driest it has been in over 100 years according to official weather data.

For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt ...

The first part of construction will build the sill to an elevation of -55 feet, and the Corps will monitor the progression of the saltwater wedge to determine if additional height is needed to meet ...

Crews have starting work to create barrier to try and slow down salt water from the Gulf that has been surging up river in ...

The senator used a football metaphor to describe the proactive start of projects designed to mitigate the sewage flows from Mexico through the Tijuana River Valley into the Tijuana Estuary and the ...

For the first time, Minnesota is directing 3M to limit the amount of PFAS it sends into the Mississippi River from its 76-year ... 3M is challenging the new requirement for its wastewater permit ...

An area of low pressure will likely merge with a front over the Gulf of Mexico after two systems forecasters ... Thursday have since dissipated, but a new trough of low pressure had developed ...

But I do vividly remember walking across the stepstones that mark the end of Lake Itasca and the start of the Mississippi River ... I am the Clarion Ledger’s new Mississippi State beat ...