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 ...

The river had breached the levee twice before — in 1993 and 2011 — but after 2016, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it would not be worth the cost to repair.

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 ...

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.

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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 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 ...

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 ...