The Yazoo County Sheriff's Office asked residents in the Eastbrook subdivision on Highway 16 to leave their homes before the levee breaks on the lake. In an update, the sheriff's office said ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday, Feb. 24. The river ...