Mayors meeting in Baton Rouge say drought policy and funding to address drinking water issues needed for Mississippi River ...

The Pearl River map turtle, named after the one place it calls home and the maplike details on its back, relies on the running waters of the Pearl River basin in Mississippi and Louisiana to eat, nest ...

Salt water in southeast Louisiana has become a regular occurrence in recent years, as the mighty flow of the Mississippi ...

Brackish Water Creeping up the Mississippi River May Threaten Louisiana's Drinking Supply BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana's drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third year ...

For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico BATON ROUGE, La. -- An influx of salt ...

FILE - In this aerial photo a tugboat pushing barges navigates around sandbars amid low water levels on the Mississippi River in Livingston Parish, La., Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert ...