Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not object to a revised proposal for a massive flood-control ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given the final green light on the Yazoo Area Pumps project.“With the signing of today’s Record of Decision, we no longer have a proposal, we have an approved ...

That old bothersome catchphrase, “better late than never,” certainly applies to the Yazoo Backwater Pump Project in Mississippi’s southern Delta. It required 80-plus years of wrangling with agencies ...

FILE - In this March 6, 2019 file photo, House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., waits for the start of a hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on ...