One of three final potential bridge locations, referred to as E-11-IV, would run through Plaquemine Point, which contains the ...

They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta became the richest ...

Michigan has one of the largest state-owned public land holdings east of the Mississippi River — more than 4.6 million acres, ...

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in St. Paul early Aug. 19, 2009. (John Doman / Pioneer Press) Wondering how long the Mississippi ...

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.” ...

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) is building and enhancing habitat connections within the Mississippi Flyway and 26th Avenue habitat corridor in North Minneapolis.

The center produces key research about ecological trends on the upper Mississippi River basin and elsewhere in the Midwest and the world. Two former scientists who were fired said the terminations ...