Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

Jay Gibson started running marathons 20 years ago. Now, he’s one of just a few thousand to run one in every state.

Wyatt Nance, 15, needed a project that benefits the community to become an Eagle Scout. He set his sights on an entire ...

More than 30 million people across 14 states rely on the Ohio River watershed for drinking water, recreation, and for their ...

Climate change is having devastating effects all over the world, including on this iconic American River whose troubled ...

Enjoy the pleasantries of Southern charm and classic soul food in this unknown Mississippi town, which boasts casinos and ...

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

A potential corridor for a new Mississippi River bridge south of Baton Rouge would bisect and partially destroy an old-growth cypress forest in Iberville Parish, which some experts have identified ...

Zebulon Pike’s first expedition in 1805 also identified the La Crosse River. In 1835, the first United States geologist George William Featherstonhaugh set out from Green Bay, Wis., with his son ...

NEW ORLEANS — The United States Coast Guard is investigating a vessel collision on the Lower Mississippi River that sunk a barge.According to guardsmen, around 9:20 p.m. on Sunday, April 27 ...

As flooding cycles on the Mississippi Delta region, more rounds of heavy rain are on the way and could spark new flooding along small streams and perhaps some rivers in the central United States.

The MARB drains more than 40% of the continental United States. A droplet of water travels 2,350 miles from the Riverhead to the Mississippi River Delta, which takes 90 days.