At least 18 people have died in what the National Weather Service (NWS) has called "catastrophic flooding" that hit the South ...

South, the river levels of the Mississippi continue to rise. Action News 5’s Tarvarious Haywood reports that the river, prior ...

Forecast maps from the agency showed that coastal ... they typically transport a volume of water vapor similar to the flow of ...

Nearly 30 tornadoes were confirmed after the first wave of the storm, which will extend into the weekend. Mud smeared streets ...

ST. LOUIS – The “Mighty” Mississippi River is a true giant of American waterways, but if you’re wondering exactly how long it is, don’t expect one single, definitive answer. On Wednesday ...

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” ...