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.” ...

Life-threatening flash flooding will continue and major river flooding will develop from the South into the Ohio Valley this ...

A collision on the Mississippi River near Luling, Louisiana, left a tugboat submerged and its crew scrambling for safety after being hit by a tanker on Sunday night. The Mississippi River is the ...

After another winter with not much snow, there's little spring flood risk on the upper Mississippi River, according to forecasters with the National Weather Service. Minor to moderate flooding ...

What began as one man on an cleanup mission has grown into one of the US's most impactful river initiatives. Chad Pregracke scours the Mississippi waterways for debris and trash. As a teenager ...