The levee bonfires in Louisiana’s River Parishes will light up on Christmas Eve, continuing a tradition dating back centuries ...

During some of December’s darkest nights, residents of Ascension, St. John the Baptist and St. James parishes illuminate the night sky with towering bonfires along the Mississippi River Levee. The ...

Papa Noel is coming down the Mississippi River for Christmas, but he’s not the only one traveling a long distance for ...

Whether locals are looking to explore their city with fresh eyes or to take out-of-towners with hopes of curating a social ...

Recent storms dropped between three and five inches of rain in the area upstream of Arkabutla Lake. The lake level has risen ...

work to raise the Corcoran Levee in response to floodwaters along the reemerging Tulare Lake, in California’s Central Valley, ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is pursuing a plan to replace the 100-year-old lock that connects the Mississippi River to ...

Stretching back at least a century, bonfires have been built on the levees in St. James and St. John the Baptist parishes for ...

Levees built to protect greater New Orleans had cut off the Maurepas Swamp from the fresh water supplied by the Mississippi River and the Pontchartrain Basin, starving the swamp of nutrients ...

Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river with man-made ...

GARYVILLE, La. — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the ...