New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Mississippi River ships and barges carry over 500 million tons of cargo through the Southwest Pass shipping channel at the river's end to reach major ports that handle 18% of U.S ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf.

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta's Yazoo Backwater. It took more than six months to recede. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on a pumping ...

A former Broadway actress, she was a no-nonsense foil for the unruly Fred Sanford. She also warmed hearts with a recurring ...

Wildlife authorities told FOX13 that the only time they would relocate a bear is if it posed an immediate threat to the public or if it made it to a downtown area and could not find its way back home.

The blues put this town on the tourism map, but Clarksdale has leaned into its musical heritage in recent decades. Here’s how to experience the best of this Mississippi town’s music scene and more.

They're mostly found along the Gulf Coast, the Loess Bluffs of southwest Mississippi and the Mississippi River Delta. Download the FOX13 Memphis app to receive alerts from breaking news in your ...

Memphis had just the place, the mayor said: the former Electrolux factory located along a dusty industrial stretch near the Mississippi River. The site, empty for nearly two years, was a sore spot.

Louisiana’s coastline is a river delta, formed by the Mississippi over millennia as its current slowed and relinquished its mud into a calm and sheltered gulf. In the back-and-forth contest ...

The so-called mega-study launched in 2023 was intended to last five years and address a wide range of issues key to shipping, floods and drinking water, among many others.