The so-called mega-study launched in 2023 was intended to last five years and address a wide range of issues key to shipping, ...

An April report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group named the Mississippi River as the most endangered in the United ...

Anderson Jones had something to be grateful for. He finally made it home. Five years prior, the sandbag levee protecting his ...

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

Anderson Jones had something to be grateful for. He finally made it home. Five years earlier, the sandbag levee protecting ...

Gov. Tony Evers signed a proclamation declaring June 2 National Mississippi River Day in Wisconsin, saying the river helps ...

FEMA cuts could worsen Mississippi River flooding and harm the ecosystem. Shifting disaster recovery costs to states may be untenable due to their financial situations. Unregulated development in ...

forcing some to evacuate while others downstream stacked sandbag walls and closed off flood-prone areas. Communities along the Upper Mississippi River scrambled Wednesday as the always-massive ...

ALTON The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, in partnership with the Wood River Drainage and Levee District, ...

The name of the study is “Keys to the River 2020: An Upper Mississippi River Flood Risk, Sediment and Drought Management Study." The goal of studying the river basin as a whole is that engineers ...

The risk of Mississippi River flooding in the Quad-Cities this spring is currently below normal, according to an early forecast by the National Weather Service. That could change with heavy ...

The Mississippi River tops a new list of America's most endangered rivers, in part because federal officials propose shifting ...