A federal judge in Mississippi ruled in two cases that his court didn’t have the authority to order the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete an environmental impact study on repeated openings of a ...

The U..S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided against opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway — welcome news for South Mississippi as Mississippi River water released through the spillway can degrade ...

Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser addressed the D’Iberville Business Club during a luncheon at Café New Orleans, ...

THE FLOODING STARTED WITH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN DECEMBER OF 2018, AND PERSISTED INTO THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR... THAT FLOODWATER WAS DIVERTED...CREATING MORE PROBLEMS FOR THE STATE... NOW ...

FILE - March 8, 2018 file photo, workers open the gates of the Bonnet Carre spillway, a river diversion structure, which diverts water from the rising Mississippi River, above right, to Lake ...

Above: The Morganza Spillway on May 15, 2011, a day after its flood gates were opened. Image credit: Divine Providence: The 2011 Flood in the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, by U.S. Army ...

The Army Corps of Engineers ignored its own operating manual when it twice opened a Mississippi River spillway in 2019, causing an environmental and economic disaster in Mississippi and Louisiana, ...

This satellite image of the lower Mississippi River delta on Saturday (April 27) shows both the remaining effects of sediment carried by water released during the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway ...

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Officials in Mississippi are trying to force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River Commission to consult with them before opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway in ...

On top of the novel coronavirus, South Mississippi has a familiar enemy to deal with: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to open the Bonnet Carré Spillway as early as Friday, Joe Spraggins says.

Mississippi will get $1.25 million to evaluate the effects of freshwater from a Louisiana spillway on dolphins and sea turtles in the Mississippi Sound.Gov. Phil Bryant said Friday that the money from ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Army Corps of Engineers ignored its own operating manual when it twice opened a Mississippi River spillway in 2019, causing an environmental and economic disaster in Mississippi and ...