River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...

This was the Río del Espíritu Santo—the river, nearly every scholar agrees, that local tribes called the Mississippi. Santa ...

Mayors from 10 states along the Mississippi River convened in Louisiana’s capital this week to announce a cooperative ...

Armed with new protections, this turtle could be the catalyst for halting a huge and controversial engineering project ...

A new survey finds that Latino voters who live near the Mississippi River value the river and are worried about pollution.

After outages, residents should never touch downed power lines. Any food exposed to temperatures above 40 degrees for more ...

The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits ST ...

Salt water is moving upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. Drought in the central United States has weakened the mighty river’s ...

Work has begun on an underwater levee to block salt water advancing up the Mississippi River and threatening southeast Louisiana drinking water supplies for the third year in a row, the Army Corps ...

Runners will line up in downtown Minneapolis before winding through the Twin Cities to the Minnesota State Capitol.

The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits ...