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The Mississippi will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise,” Mark Twain wrote in the ...
The Corps of Engineers ran a test of the Bonnet Carre Spillway on Monday in preparation for the possibility it will have to ...
multibillion-dollar bridge project, which is expected to ease traffic in Baton Rouge and the West Mississippi River bank, as well as deliver an economic boost to Plaquemine and Iberville Parish.
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - As of 4 a.m. Wednesday, the “new bridge” over the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to Port Allen was still closed in both directions. However, the “old bridge ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing for the Mississippi River to reach some of its highest water levels in recent ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has activated the second phase of its flood fight plan for the Mississippi River.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin daily levee patrols from Baton Rouge to Venice as the Mississippi River is ...
The Army Corps of Engineers began testing the spillway Monday in the event of a partial opening later this week.
On Wednesday, WBRZ reported that the coroner's office confirmed the identity of the body found as 24-year-old Dallas, Texas ...
It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.
In 2018, the state committed to widen Interstate 10 from the Mississippi ... the Baton Rouge community is counting on DOTD to deliver on its projects. It is time we make our road and bridge ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - With the Mississippi River projected to rise above 15 feet at the Carrollton Gage on Tuesday, the U.S.