Maps have been around since humans could communicate through drawings to describe the location of a specific place. Some of ...

The Mississippi River reached its highest level of the spring season in Baton Rouge on Thursday, confirming forecasts of ...

Researchers say drought, sea level rise, severe storms and dredging are partly to blame for the increased in frequency and ...

The Mississippi River is expected to reach flood stage in Louisiana for the first time since 2019, prompting flood-fight measures. The rising river levels, caused by heavy rains in the Ohio Valley ...

Des Moines County, along with Dubuque County, were the two original Iowa counties formed along the Mississippi River in 1834 ... Thomas Jefferson’s 1803 Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the ...

It was changed to the sandbar because of fear of roaming bandits on the Sabine River." Dueling was outlawed in both Louisiana and Mississippi, but the sandbar supposedly belonged to neither state ...

which severely inundated Louisiana communities. It has been opened 15 times, including twice in 2019 due to heavy rains that year in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. The river rises in the ...

In mid-April 1927, 98 years ago this week, another deluge of torrential rain tipped the Mississippi ... Louisiana was the final straw in an already serious situation. By late April, the ...