Take one step past the town of Venice, La., and it feels like you’ll fall off into the abyss. It’s far down the road, past absolutely everything, with its only neighbor being the mouth of the ...

The mouth of the Mississippi River, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico south of New Orleans, Louisiana, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above.

While many states have embraced new health care system in 1999. Mississippians have poor health status compared to residents of other states, and Mississippi is as yellow as a daffodil floating on a ...

Thomas Olander, on his boat in Cypremort Point, Louisiana, shows off the nets his family uses to catch shrimp in Vermilion Bay. (La’Shance Perry/The Lens) Buy Photo CYPREMORT POINT, La. — Thomas ...

You could call it “Dead Zone East,” a 1,634-square-mile area of Gulf of Mexico bottom waters with dangerously low levels of oxygen on the east side of the Mississippi River. It's a bit larger than the ...

From the deck of his expansive marina near the mouth of the Mississippi River, Rene Cross says he hopes he doesn’t have to deal with it all again. The corroded washing machines and ice makers, the ...

COLUMBUS HALL IN CHALMETTE IN ORLEANS PARISH. THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, TAKING NEW ACTION AGAINST THE RISING MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THE CORPS HAS ACTIVATED ITS ONE FLOOD FIGHT PROCEDURES AFTER WATER ...

Running 2,340 miles long, the Mississippi River starts in Minnesota and ends in the Gulf of Mexico (also known as the Gulf of America), with a nearly never-ending amount of cities built around it to ...