Amidst one of the nation's historic floods, one of the most frenetic evacuations happened on a small island frequently ...

ST. LOUIS -- Missouri landowners and environmentalists are urging a federal agency to sanction a levee district on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, arguing the earthen barrier has been ...

GRAND TOWER, Ill. (AP) — Even as the Mississippi River retreats from its latest spring flooding, a southern Illinois town is worrying about an earthen levee that has started to ...

Chronic flooding has forced people in southern Illinois to return farmland to the Mississippi’s floodplain, and to reflect on what it means to live with the river.

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The dramatic, late-night demolition of a huge earthen levee sent chocolate-colored floodwaters pouring onto thousands of acres of Missouri farmland Tuesday, easing the threat to a tiny Illinois ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ill. (AP) _ Jim McClaskey drove in Tuesday to see whether floodwaters threatened a campsite near this southeastern Illinois community. He needed a boat to get out.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee in a desperate attempt to protect the Illinois town of Cairo from rising floodwaters.

The U.S. government said on Monday it will go ahead with a plan to blow up a levee on the Mississippi River to relieve flood pressure on other levees along the critical commercial navigation route ...