It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

The list calls attention to the threats rivers face and prioritizes those for which the public can influence policies that ...

The unofficial start of the Mississippi River navigation season has begun. The Motor Vessel Neil N. Diehl went through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings on Wednesday, with nine barges. Reaching Hasting ...

Reaching St. Paul marks the unofficial start to the navigation season because it’s the last port on the Upper Mississippi River to open every year. The delay is a result of ice in Lake Pepin ...

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.” ...

In addition to the Mississippi, this year's list of imperiled rivers spans all the way from the Passaic River in New Jersey to the Susitna River in Alaska. Many of the most endangered were threatened ...