Interstate 10 westbound briefly closed as authorities worked to recover a body after witnesses reported seeing a person take ...

Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development says I-10 West is closed at Mile Marker 213 due to an incident.

(The Times-Picayune archive) The Bonnet Carre Spillway The Corps will open the spillway to keep the volume of Mississippi River flows at New Orleans from exceeding 1.25 million cubic feet per ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the protection it offers New Orleans’ levee system comes at a cost ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the protection it offers New Orleans' levee system comes at a cost: The rush of ...

A partial opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway "seems a certainty now," Louisiana State Climatologist Jay Grymes said in emailed comments Thursday, as recent forecasts indicated a further rise in ...

The U..S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided against opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway — welcome news for South Mississippi as Mississippi River water released through the spillway can degrade ...

With the Mississippi River rising and heavy rainfall upstream, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct a test opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway on Monday, April 21 at 10 a.m. The test ...

However, he believes that could all change if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opens the Bonnet Carré Spillway to alleviate Mississippi River flooding. The spillway hasn’t opened since 2020.

A lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway was dismissed by a federal court March 27 after finding it lacked authority to instruct the Corps ...

Plaintiffs alleged that the Corps failed to supplement its 1976 NEPA Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) amidst changing environmental conditions associated with the Bonnet Carre´ Spillway ...