North of New Roads and Morganza, a roughly 60-year-old collection of dams, channels, locks and guide levees has kept the Mississippi River from jumping its course and taking the steeper, more direct ...

As a wedge of salt water creeps up the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering an unusual tactic: Using the massive Old River Control Structure to reduce the amount of water ...

ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) — St. Martin Parish council members and swamp advocates are expressing their concerns over a river diversion project in Atchafalaya Basin, a project they say could lead ...

MORGAN CITY, La. -- Morgan City is under a state of emergency. That's where the Atchafalaya river is expected to crest at 9 and a half feet on January 23. The downtown floodwall protects up to 22 feet ...

The Atchafalaya Basin (dark green in this satellite image, with the Atchafalaya River running through its center) is almost a million acres of bottomland woods and swamp. DeWitt Braud, LSU/USGS Nat.