In the early 1700s, French settlers tried to control the Mississippi River by reinforcing natural levees that were created from deposited sediment. When a resident received a land grant along the ...

Several rivers hit record-breaking water levels after significant rainfall pummeled the Pacific Northwest this week.

This story is part of When it Rains, a special series from the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network that includes The Gazette. Click here to learn more about how ...

The levee system in Louisiana is unnatural. The Mississippi River was designed by Mother Nature as a means to fertilize our soil, replenish wetlands, fight subsidence and counteract erosion. She, the ...

New Orleans was founded on high land, but its natural levee would never be high enough to protect New Orleans from flooding. By 1722, early French settlers decided to raise – lever – the the land ...

Imagine this: A broad boardwalk spanning wetlands with native bird species within eyeshot amid natural foliage and a nearby 8-mile channel filled with fish. That’s the vision promised by a massive $39 ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday signed a memorandum of agreement with Commissioner of State Lands Tommy Land to conduct a statewide levy inventory. This would be the state's "first-ever ...

With much of California's massive snowpack yet to melt as summer began, downstream communities were on high alert for flooding. Hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged during the record-breaking ...

A pond marks where a levee was breached during the 2019 flood of the Missouri River in Atchison County, Missouri, flooding levee district board member Regan Griffin’s farmland. The board hopes to set ...

The western border of Atchison County, Mo., follows the twisting path of the Missouri River. Acres of corn and soy fields once lined its shores, but after a nearby levee suffered seven breaches in the ...