Britain ceded more territory that doubled the size of the U.S. Along with the original 13 colonies, the new country now included territory that stretched all the way to the Mississippi River, to ...

In 1875, Wong joined 13 other men aboard a steamboat headed ... Rodell would come home from swimming in the Mississippi River on hot days, crossing through town, daring to drink from the white ...

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

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

The so-called mega-study launched in 2023 was intended to last five years and address a wide range of issues key to shipping, ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

Bridges that span the Mississippi River in western Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota are sturdy enough to withstand a barge collision, according to an engineer from the Wisconsin Department of ...

A new era emerging along the lower Mississippi River will pose serious challenges for Louisiana and the nation in the years ahead. Here are key takeaways from the newspaper’s project examining ...

ALTON — Researchers have confirmed at least two bull shark sightings in the Mississippi River over the last 100 years. In both cases, bull sharks managed to swim upstream past St. Louis — more ...

The structure, called the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, is to be located on the west side of the Mississippi River about 35 miles upriver from Neptune Pass, near the small town of ...

In 2018, Andy McMillan was in a bar in Memphis when he met a man from New Jersey who was, improbably, floating the 2,300-mile length of the Mississippi River from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico ...