That power would be unleashed during the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Raised on his family's plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, Butler went to Tulane University and its law school ...

The Mississippi River is facing flood threats, too ... all the way into the Great Lakes region, and sparking this regional flood event that continues to unfold as the waters work their way ...

The Mississippi River Commission remained confident in ... One year later, the Great Flood of 1927 would prove just how wrong they were.

“We’re just wanting to have a flood level we can live in,” Newsom said. But the water isn’t done yet. Forecasters had predicted a brief but sharp drop in the Mississippi River later this ...

In “The Great River,” the journalist Boyce Upholt ... Later in the century, the federal government gave priority to flood control along the lower Mississippi, where wealthy speculators were ...

ST. LOUIS — A salvage company operator long tasked with removing a sunken World War II-era naval ship from the Mississippi River now faces ... broke free in the Great Flood of 1993 and later ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to improve four of its locks and dams through a Consolidated Lock Closure, ...

Barges wrap around bottomland forest in Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi ... floods. “These big flood events, especially 2016 ...

The event was one of many postponed by Hurricane Milton, but a recurring theme of Great Cities Symposium — resiliency — seems ...

Barges wrap around bottomland forest in Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and ... uptick in more severe and longer-lasting floods. “These big flood events, especially ...