The Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger should be approved. It would benefit riders, businesses, and the railway network.

A bounty has been set on black carp in Oklahoma, but it might be hard for anglers to get their hands on a payout. Recently a program — Keep, Cool, Call — was expanded to Oklahoma. The program rewards ...

Mississippi River basin residents worry about the environment and want change, study finds. But many don't know they're in the basin. Madeline Heim Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 0:05 ...

The U.S. has spent more than $30 billion since 1997 on efforts to clean up the Mississippi Basin, but in a 2023 progress report to Congress the EPA said much more work is needed.

They surveyed more than 2,300 adult residents from the 10 states that border the Mississippi River, seeking to better understand what people know about environmental issues in the basin.

In Louisiana, 24.3% were aware they live in the Mississippi basin, the largest percentage of all basin states, but 53% didn't believe they did.

The focus of the visit was the algae bloom that occurred in the Mississippi Sound after the Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Louisiana to prevent flooding.

Lance Nacio, right, and deckhand Jorge Portillo harvest traps for blue crab in the Barataria Basin between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers in Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 23, 2024.

For the Mississippi River basin, Jill Trepanier, an associate professor at Louisiana State University studying weather and climate, is most concerned about the extreme variability in precipitation.

The 80th Anniversary Celebration of the Mississippi River Basin Model will give visitors a rare opportunity to see what has been described as the largest hydraulic model in the world from 2 until ...

Corps to divert more of Mississippi River to the Atchafalaya Basin Extra water could spur sluggish crawfish season By RICHARD BURGESS Acadiana bureau Apr 25, 2013 2 min to read ...