Emergency officials responded to the Huey P. Long Bridge after one person was killed in a crash. The westbound lanes were ...

Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands since the 1930s. A Baton Rouge Magnet High student is studying the ...

SACRAMENTO — Emergency repairs are happening on the levee near the Cosumnes River from damage that dates back to the 2023 winter storms. Reclamation District 800 declared a state of emergency at ...

The groundbreaking for the first section of repairs to the Pajaro River levee happened last October, but the delay means the community will go this winter and possibly next unprotected. In today's ...

Baton Rouge serves double duty as a college town and Louisiana’s capital. See how the town's vibrant story told through its ...

When French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville traveled up the Mississippi River in 1699 ... “le bâton rouge,” or “red stick.” The name stuck, and today, Baton Rouge serves double ...

STARKVILLE — Quanirah Montague played just one minute and 19 seconds in Mississippi State’s loss at Missouri on Jan. 27 and did not register any statistics, with head coach Sam Purcell giving ...

An alert for needed repairs was issued this week due to “significant uncontrolled levee erosion” along the Cosumnes River in east Sacramento County. The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors ...

The plan includes 23 active projects across Terrebonne and Lafourche, 15 projects in engineering and two projects in the planning phase in Lafourche.

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece ... North of St. Louis, for example, levees constrain the river to protect communities and valuable farmland from flooding — and ...

Work began simultaneously in Baton Rouge and Lafayette with both ... That inadequacy proved fatal in 1927, when the Mississippi River broke through levees at Caernarvon, Cabin Teele, Melville ...