It was a first of its kind Saturday morning as the Izaak Walton League Upper Mississippi River Chapter held its first public event.

As climate change and development exacerbate the Mississippi River’s environmental problems, many communities will have to ...

Once upon a time, the Mississippi River flowed wild and free, with waterfalls and braided channels. The river was home to an ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

The Upper Mississippi is the 1,243 miles of river from Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. It is the area that flows past the Quad-Cities; in fact, it forms the entire eastern border of ...

31—Dear Answer Man: In past winters we have always been updated on the amount of ice on Lake Pepin, but I didn ... tow began its journey up the Upper Mississippi in the district on March 10.

Records from Lake Pepin dating back to 1850 show that ... which also is part of the upper Mississippi River system. Last winter proved to be an extreme example of that trend, with scientists ...

A 1939 photo of wild rice on Blue Lake in La Crescent, Minn., on the Mississippi River. Credit: Upper Mississippi River National Fish and Wildlife Refuge The place now known as Wisconsin has a ...

“It’s one of the most dramatic changes on the upper Mississippi,” Larson ... turn into a giant rice bed. Lake Onalaska, a large reservoir of the river, is one such place.

"It's one of the most dramatic changes on the upper Mississippi," Larson ... turn into a giant rice bed. Lake Onalaska, a large reservoir of the river, is one such place. In the 1980s, there ...