Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ...

Louisiana has officially canceled the $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion—the largest single ecosystem restoration ...

The Reserve Officer Training Corps programs at Southern and Tulane universities will be impacted by the Army’s nationwide reorganization of the popular college program. The two schools are among the ...

The Mississippi River is drying up, especially south of St. Louis.. Some areas have hit record low levels or are close to the record. Here's what the river looks like from its start in Minnesota ...

Water levels on the Mississippi River are nearing historic lows for the second consecutive year, triggering a drinking water emergency in Louisiana as ocean water flows upstream, unimpeded by the ...

This summer’s Mississippi River “dead zone” could span 5,827 square miles across the Gulf of Mexico off of Louisiana.

Engineers are working to help reconnect the Mississippi River to Louisiana’s sediment-starved wetlands in an effort to rebuild some of the land that is disappearing at a rate of almost 11,000 ...

File photo: December 1, 1935 The New Huey P. Long Bridge across the Mississippi River When this $13,000,000 structure is completed December 1, 1935.

At the end of the Mississippi, a saltwater wedge overwhelms a community. A mass of salt water moving up the drought-stricken river has slowed, giving New Orleans more time to prepare.

Louisiana could petition the EPA to declare sections of the Mississippi River or the Gulf of Mexico as impaired, which would allow for the creation of an enforceable limit on nutrients entering ...

Louisiana on Thursday scrapped a $3 billion project to repair its disappearing Gulf coastline, an initiative funded by the ...