President Trump is not the first to downplay providing federal emergency relief. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, ...

This massive volume of water would cover 27,000 square miles in parts of seven states, an area larger than the state of West Virginia. The Mississippi River was up to 80 miles wide in some areas ...

Unlike flash flooding, which can happen in seconds, seasonal spring river flooding is gradual, though last week’s relative heat wave across the Midwest – with temperatures in the mid-80s to 90 ...

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their farms and homes from floods. The Trump Administration is ready to move ...

When the rising floodwaters in Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater seeped past the barrier, it marked the starting line of a long journey to rebuild. In the historic Yazoo Backwater flood of 2019, Anderson ...

In mid-April 1927, 98 years ago this week, another deluge of torrential rain tipped the Mississippi River basin into a historic flood that remains among the most destructive in U.S. history.

In mid-April 1927, 98 years ago this week, another deluge of torrential rain tipped the Mississippi River basin into a historic flood that remains among the most destructive in U.S. history.