BILOXI, Miss. (WKRG) — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources certified an all-tackle state saltwater fishing record for the month of May. According to an MDMR news release, the record was set ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WKRG) — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources certified an all-tackle state saltwater fishing record for the month of May — and the record breaker was a Mobile man. According ...

Construction has begun on a saltwater sill near Myrtle Grove to help mitigate the effects of saltwater intrusion up the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a construction ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Col. Cullen Jones, who commands the New Orleans District, provides an update on his office’s measures to address a “saltwater wedge” moving up a historically low ...

Communities along the freshwater Mississippi River are facing a growing threat from an intrusion of saltwater moving the wrong way up the river from the Gulf of Mexico. It has wreaked havoc on public ...

BELLE CHASSE, La. — As the saltwater wedge continues upstream through the Mississippi River, more than just our drinking water could be affected. Farmers across Southeast Louisiana are bracing for ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) — In lower Plaquemines Parish, all eyes are on the Mississippi River, as its low levels have allowed saltwater to creep upriver. “We’re seeing a saltwater intrusion begin,” says ...

For months, Louisiana oyster farmer Mitch Jurisich, Jr. watched the Mississippi as an invisible surge of Gulf of Mexico salt water crept up the tail end of the river, twisting along levees through ...