MORGAN CITY, La. Gov. BobbyJindal said he expects the Morganza spillway to open sometime Saturday in an effort to reduce the flow rate and river levels. Jindal announced the decision to open the ...

It may be hard to believe after all the snow and rain that has fallen ― and keeps falling ― on the North State this winter, but Lake Shasta water levels are still lower than normal for this time of ...

The Army Corps of Engineers wants to open the Bonnet Carre' Spillway structure in St. Charles Parish starting Thursday, (March 8) to divert water from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain.

California water officials opened the main spillway at the Oroville Dam on Friday afternoon, doing so for flood control purposes for the first time since 2019. Ted Craddock, deputy director of the ...

On top of the novel coronavirus, South Mississippi has a familiar enemy to deal with: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to open the Bonnet Carré Spillway as early as Friday, Joe Spraggins says.

In an unprecedented fifth opening in the last five years, the Army Corps of Engineers will open 20 bays of the Bonnet Carre Spillway Friday morning to reduce pressure on river levees in the New ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Plans to open a major Mississippi River spillway have been canceled, at least for the time being. Part of the Morganza Spillway structure northwest of Baton Rouge had been scheduled ...

MORGANZA, La. —Water from the bulging Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the Cajun ...

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) -- Army engineers prepared Saturday to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New ...

Heavy rains in the Mississippi Valley are prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to open the Bonnet Carre' Spillway Friday for the first time in eleven years. Thursday morning, high water levels ...

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) - Army engineers are preparing to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River. That will divert floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New ...

Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in Louisiana's French-speaking ...