Residents of Alexander County, in the southernmost tip of Illinois, evacuated Friday as water topped one levee and threatened to flow over another.

ST. LOUIS – Authorities in Southern Illinois urged residents living behind the Len Small levee to move to higher ground after Mississippi River water topped it. The levee in the far southwestern ...

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. Here & Now 's Chris Bentley reports.

The action is the latest from government agencies that say the Sny Island Levee and Drainage District has illegally high levees. Illinois says levee district raised heights without permit Skip to ...

A historic town in Illinois is hoping a modern form of fundraising will help keep their levee protected and their town safe. Prairie Du Rocher, located about 50 miles south of St. Louis, is ...

image: The Len Small levee, built to hold back the Mississippi River as it rounds the southern tip of Illinois, has failed repeatedly, but it has been left unrepaired since 2016.

The levee is part of the Sny Levee and Drainage District on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Mo., shown here on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Photo by J.B. Forbes ...

WYATT, Mo. — 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 ...

London Mills, Illinois is being evacuated after flooding turned from bad to worse on Thursday. No, we're not talking about a few blocks of the town. Police are ordering the entire town out their ...

WYATT, Mo. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate attempt to protect an Illinois town from rising floodwaters. The corps ...

The 60-mile system is north of St. Louis and protects roughly 115,000 acres of fertile Illinois farmland. Missourians want action over too-high Illinois levee - Chicago Sun-Times ...