Seasonal rises on the Mississippi have triggered additional levee checks and a prohibition on certain work near them.

A Flood Warning is in effect for rivers in Louisiana, including the Vermilion River in Lafayette. The river was at 9.5 feet at Surrey Street ...

Ninety percent of the historic town of Mandeville, Louisiana, is in the FEMA flood zone. I got a tour from Rod Scott. All the houses we passed were lifted up on pilings 12 feet in the air.

A surging Red River that flooded northwest Louisiana this week ... to recede on Wednesday but was still expected to be above flood stage for several more days. In Bossier and Caddo Parishes ...

The Storm Prediction Center is the division of the National Weather Service that forecasts "big storms". This week the SPC is ...

Louisiana’s waterlogged history makes it ... Additionally, property owners must maintain current flood insurance policies to qualify, a challenge, given soaring premiums.

Melinda Deslatte and Mike Kunzelman, Baton Rouge; Kevin McGill and Rebecca Santana, New Orleans; freelance photographer Max Becherer; videojournalists John Mone from Houston and Josh Replogle from ...