Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

World Atlas calls 4 Mississippi lakes the most snake-infested in the state. Know how to ID venomous snakes and tell them ...

Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park is located in Middle Brook, Missouri, approximately 100 miles southwest of St. Louis. The park ...

Two North American river otters have a new outdoor habitat at the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium.

Ongoing sewage leaks and overflows have kept the Pearl River and tributaries in and near Jackson under a water contact ...

The government approved the building up pumps for Mississippi Delta flood control in 1941. More than eight decades later, a ...

Learn about the iconic Mississippi River: its vibrant river history, crucial role among US rivers, diverse ecology, and the era of steamboats that shaped the nation.

Otters aren't rare to Wisconsin, but it is unusual to see them in the wild. That made Thursday exciting for those who spotted one in the La Crosse River marsh.

The river spans 981 miles, starting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and flowing to Cairo, Illinois, where it empties into the Mississippi River.

The Great River Road offers a scenic way to see the dozens of towns and cities along the banks of the Mississippi River. This is what to know.

The Mississippi River is one of the greatest water highways on earth. Half of the nation’s corn and soybeans are barged through the section of the river above the Ohio River junction.

The largest fish ever caught in the Mississippi was a 131-pound blue catfish caught by Eugene Cronley on April 7, 2022, near Natchez, Mississippi.