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 Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to ...

Each day this week, the Des Moines Register will be presenting one of the daily maps for RAGBRAI 2025. Here's today's.

Trump's call to abolish FEMA as Mississippi sees more frequent, extreme flooding, prompts group to name river the nation's most endangered waterway.

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.” ...