They only have to look at the rapidly rising rivers to see what’s coming. “As long as I’ve been alive — and I’m 52 — this is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” Wendy Quire, the general manager of the Brown ...

Workers erected sandbag ramparts to protect homes and businesses and turned off utilities as the swollen Kentucky River kept rising. “As long as I’ve been alive — and I’m 52 — this is the worst I’ve ...

The Corps of Engineers ran a test of the Bonnet Carre Spillway on Monday in preparation for the possibility it will have to ...

The Corps has not yet announced whether the agency will open the spillway, and says they are monitoring the forecast before ...

American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization, named the Mississippi River the "most endangered river" of ...

Preparation is underway in the city of Vicksburg as the Mississippi river continues to rise. The state of emergency was ...