ALTON—Despite rain, heat, and isolated thunderstorms, the Mississippi River Festival persevered for the final night of the two-day historic music event that has existed since 1969. With Friday’s ...

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta's Yazoo Backwater. It took more than six months to recede. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on a pumping ...

The project is expected to replenish around 45,000 acres of wetlands over the next 50 years, protecting Louisiana residents ...

Longtime river pilot Mark Delesdernier will be honored with the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award, when LeBoeuf Bros. Towing christens a new tugboat in his honor on Saturday.

The large gate stays closed when the Mississippi reaches flood stage. However, if rain falls while the gate is down, that rain cannot drain out of the Yazoo Backwater. The gate “really is the plug at ...

That’s why 2019 was so bad. The Mississippi River stayed high for months, and the gates never opened. Big floods along the Mississippi have become more common. Experts who study the river say there ...

To John Ruskey, the Mississippi River is “a creative force” that sculpts the landscape and rejuvenates the people who ...

He and his team of guides lead tours of the river in wooden dugout canoes, paddling like French pioneers from the 17th century and Indigenous people long before them. Since leaving his native Colorado ...

An iconic Mississippi River bridge that connects southwest Wisconsin and northeast Iowa reopened June 9 after a three-week closure. The 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge, which links Lansing, Iowa with ...