JEFFERSON CITY — Dry conditions that have kept significant areas of Missouri in drought this summer are moving closer to becoming a multi-year event.

Missouri River Basin Water Management Director John Remus says conditions have been getting worse since the drought first began to emerge in July of 2020.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicts no relief from dry conditions in the Missouri River basin during the year ahead, what’s forecast to be the fourth straight year of drought for the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is developing a framework for assessing drought in a changing ...

Water levels in the Missouri River are still well below average.

The North Alabama steamboat sank in October 1870, and its hull has remained wedged in the Missouri River near Vermillion, South Dakota for more than 150 years. The shipwreck is typically submerged ...

According to the Drought Mitigation Center, over 90% of the Missouri River basin is currently experiencing some form of abnormally dry conditions or drought, which is almost a 20% increase from ...

According to the Climate Prediction Center’s latest outlook, drought conditions are likely to persist in some capacity through the summer months in much of the Missouri River Basin.

Missouri River Natural Resources Department has played a big role in flood prevention in Omaha, staff said there are ...

BILLINGS —Abnormally dry or drought conditions are present across 73% of the Upper Missouri River Basin, with drought conditions likely to persist or worsen through November, according to the U ...

A mixed bag for precipitation continues to factor into a below-average runoff forecast for the Missouri River Basin.

On a farm in southwest Missouri, drought conditions caused a farmer to resort to cutting corn that will not make grain to sell, in July 2023. Reagan Bluel, University of Missouri Extension ...