Water levels in the Lower Mississippi River have dipped unusually low for a third year in a row, restricting how much grain can be transported downstream as harvest season gets underway.If levels ...

President Trump is not the first to downplay providing federal emergency relief. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, ...

Jason DeBoer, who took an interesting path to documenting Illinois' two main rivers—the Illinois and the Mississippi—for the Illinois Natural History Survey, shares his path and insights.

Ice duration on the upper Mississippi is shrinking. On the upper Mississippi, which stretches from the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota to Cairo, Illinois, south of St. Louis, the calmer ...

The Orchard Farm Fire Protection District said it received a call at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday about three individuals in the ...

Rockwood, Illinois — About eighty miles south of St. Louis, Brian Ragsdale’s boat, the Dredge Potter, has been deployed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carve a channel out of the bed of ...

The 4th of July is just around the corner. If you are heading to the Mississippi River for a boating or camping trip, there ...

A 2020 study that examined changes in river ice across the globe noted that on rivers that have been heavily engineered by humans — like the Mississippi — that engineering can alter how ice forms.

As climate change and development exacerbate the Mississippi River’s environmental problems, many communities will have to grapple with the questions facing Dogtooth Bend: how to balance the ...

In 2016, the Mississippi River punched a hole in the Len Small levee, built to protect farmland along an S-shaped curve in the river known as Dogtooth Bend. That hole was never repaired. Here ...

“It’s one of the most dramatic changes on the upper Mississippi,” Larson said. “It’s everywhere.” In the past several years, wild rice has exploded on this part of the upper river ...

The Mississippi River is home to 25% of all ... Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee ... The river flows at various speeds along its length due to natural meanders and man-made changes.