It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, has activated its Phase 1 flood flight procedures because river levels at the Carrollton Gage in New Orleans are now above 11 feet. Because of ...

A map from the USGS showed that some rivers were 23,000 percent of their normal median level or higher as of Friday morning.

Cities along the Mississippi River are closing their flood gates and preparing for water to continue to rise after four days ...

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Vice Chairman of the Red Cross James Fieser. Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, can not tame that lawless stream ...