A memorial located on the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet in St. Bernard Parish commemorates those lost during Hurricane Katrina. Beyond the floodgates—and beyond your visit ...

An earlier version of the plan, from 2009, called for a deeper lock capable of accommodating deep-draft vessels that once passed through the now-closed Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet canal.

A new Louisiana law that rolls back protections from development in isolated wetlands is inspired by a 2023 U.S. Supreme ...

“A reading of this law … could say that all of Bayou Sauvage, thousands of acres of wetlands, are now not protected,” Rota ...

Louisiana lawmakers wrapped up a busy regular legislative session Thursday, passing bills on a wide range of issues from ...

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Chevron, Exxon and other oil and gas companies that lawsuits seeking compensation ...

During Katrina, the intersection of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet acted like a giant “V” to funnel storm surge into New Orleans East and St. Bernard Parish.

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.

The Topgolf planned for the River District is dead after years of delays and the opening of a rival golf-entertainment ...

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, FEMA was very quick to open the Mississippi River to commerce, Ricchiuti said. It's unlikely a state would be able to handle the majority of that burden.

Since leaving his native Colorado to explore the river in 1982, Ruskey has come to refer to the Mississippi as his “mighty queen” and himself as a “worker bee on the river.” ...

A new kind of coastal restoration effort is taking shape in Hancock County, and it’s the first of its kind in Mississippi.