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 ...

An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana's drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway.

For the third consecutive year, Mississippi River water levels are falling again ... It was only two months ago that much of the river was above flood stage north of St. Louis. As river levels fell ...

Armed with new protections, this turtle could be the catalyst for halting a huge and controversial engineering project ...

On a clear, hot summer afternoon along the Bogue Chitto creek at Walker’s Bridge Water Park in southern, Noah Devros dives ...

How we turned one of our country’s biggest rivers into a machine — and what happens when that machine starts to break down.

In the very first episode of River Town, we’re exploring how the Missouri River of today inspires artists -- from folk musicians, to watercolor painters with a penchant for pretzel paddle boating, to ...

The storm could drive life-threatening coastal flooding, high winds, drenching rain and a few tornadoes, forecasters said.

Hurricane Francine dragged across the Gulf South overnight with strong winds that gushed storm surge, crumpled roofs and turned roads into rivers from the southeastern Louisiana coast to New Orleans.

Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi early Thursday as residents in the region ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday stressed the need to update flood hazard maps due to the changes in the volume and flow of floodwater amid heavy rain and the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil shipments of everything from corn to gasoline. Dry conditions ...