Major diversion project features, including the inlet structure and Wild Rice River control structure, are in the final construction stages. Work is 30% complete on the Red River control structure, ...

(WVUE) - The Mississippi River wants to break free of its levees and plot a shorter route to the Gulf of Mexico, bypassing New Orleans in favor of present-day Morgan City. The Old River Control ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intended to reroute the Red River through the giant flood control structure on Thursday, but Mother Nature had other plans. Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney speaks during a ...

America has an Achilles' heel. It lies on a quiet, unpopulated stretch of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, a few miles east of the tiny town of Simmesport. Rising up from the flat, wooded west ...

The next Mississippi River mega flood in Louisiana could see its water overwhelm the Old River Control Structure above Baton Rouge and cause the river to switch its flow to the Atchafalaya River basin ...

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 ...

Prior to about 1500, the bodies of water now called the Mississippi River and the Red River (also known as the Red River of the South) were roughly parallel along their southern reaches, each emptying ...

LETTSWORTH — If you drive out to the middle of nowhere and keep going, you can see where the Army Corps of Engineers is battling with the forces of nature. At the confluence of the Mississippi, ...

HORACE, N.D. — Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney is confident he will never have to wear a safety vest to sandbag again. As he spoke Thursday morning to people at the Red River Control Structure, the ...