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

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management ...

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

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

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in St. Paul early Aug. 19, 2009. (John Doman / Pioneer Press) Wondering how long the Mississippi ...

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

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.” ...

After prolonged heavy rainfall upriver, Mississippi River nears flood stage in New Orleans. Corps begins levee checks and ...