STORY HIGHLIGHTS Record water levels could last more than a month, Louisiana governor says Coast Guard reopens a section of the Mississippi River A snake advisory is issued in Louisiana Some Arkansas residents can now fish from their porches Vicksbur...

As Louisiana faces new floods, let's ensure that we never again permit politicians to send in mercenaries to 'restore order'The announcement that John Ashcroft will become the new ethics adviser to the private security company formerly known as Blackwa...

Twenty-five thousand people to lose their homes as small towns and farmland are put under water to save citiesThe flooding on the Mississippi has been a season of cruel choices. Big cities – such as Baton Rouge and New Orleans – stay dry. Small to...

Opening of floodgate should also spare Louisiana's capital but leaves farms, oil refinery and wildlife refuge in path of delugeUS army engineers have opened a key floodgate to allow the swollen Mississippi river to flood thousands of homes and crops bu...

By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer May 14, 2011; 10:11 AM ET Workers help build a temporary levee in Krotz Springs, La., Friday, May 13, 2011, in advance of possible flooding if the Morganza Spillway north of Baton Rouge is opened. Wo...

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) -- In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early...

Members of 2nd battalion Princess Patricia's Light Infantry help load sandbags onto helicopter slings to be transported to weak sections of the dike running along the Assiniboine River some 25km from Portage La Prairie, Man. Thursday, May 12, 2011. JO...

Christine Cleaver and other workers arrange sandbags as they try to protect a home southeast of Portage la Prairie, Man., on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. The province plans to break its dikes on the flooded Assiniboine River, swamping a large swath of farml...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Residents in low-lying areas have been put on alert There is concern about a plan to open the Morganza Spillway The spillway has not been opened since 1973 (CNN) -- As the Mississippi River was cresting Tuesday near Memphis, Tennesse...

"April was a month of historic climate extremes across much of the United States, including: record breaking precipitation that resulted in historic flooding; recurrent violent weather systems that broke records for tornado and severe weather outbreaks...

Low-lying areas of Memphis, Tenn., have been flooded by the rising Mississippi River, forcing evacuations, but engineers said ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Mississippi River crested in Memphis at nearly 48 feet on Tuesday, falling inches short of its all-time record but still soaking low-lying areas with enough water to require a massive cleanup. National Weather Service meteorolog...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Water from the Mississippi River floods hundreds of square miles of farmland Heavy rains have caused massive flooding from Minnesota to Louisiana. Engineers have started a controversial plan to breach a levee to alleviate wate...

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist May 4, 2011; 7:18 AM ET Part of the 130,000 acres of farmland flooded by an intentional break in the Birds Point levee is seen on Tuesday in Mississippi Co., Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) Residents alon...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Standing water forces Cape Girardeau airport to close The National Weather Service says "the levee is weakening by the minute" Some residents told to evacuate ahead of a "catastrophic failure" The Black River is more tha...