Delta Air Lines is the first major carrier in the U.S. to turn 100, so it's a good opportunity to take a tour through its ...

Cities along the Mississippi River are closing their flood gates and preparing for water to continue to rise after four days ...

Rains have ended over the Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi river basins, but runoff from 8-16 inches of rain over just a few ...

As part of an effort to restore the Mississippi River delta, an organization is collaborating with nature to address environmental challenges. The Big Muddy is the second-longest river in North ...

opening a path for the river we now know as the Mississippi to flow to the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists call that gap the Mississippi Embayment, but the rest of us know it as the Mississippi Delta ...

The blues music which arose from the Mississippi Delta has in many ways come to define modern American music. There is a deep ...

They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta became the richest ...

He's known for his travels and he's at it again. Buck No. 140 has trekked 18 miles from his South Delta winter home to his summer digs in Louisiana and crossed the Mississippi River in the process.

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from discovery to a way of love and life. This a part of a long and continuing ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in love with New Orleans jazz music, Delta blues and the deep South. We board our Viking river cruise ship at the ...

A group of investors acquired Huff Daland’s assets in December of 1928 and reincorporated as Delta Air Service (named after the Mississippi River delta). A few months later, on June 17 ...