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 ...

The Mississippi River has claimed countless lives over the years, and it kills indiscriminately, and many of its victims are ...

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

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 ...

SAVANNA, Ill. — Authorities have identified a boater who went missing Saturday, May 31, near Savanna, and whose body was recovered from the Mississippi River on Tuesday The man has been ...

The iconic Black Hawk Bridge that connects Lansing, Iowa to Crawford County, Wisconsin over the Mississippi River closed May 17 due to safety issues. It's not the first time the bridge has closed ...

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 ...

Before Jeff Buckley passed away at 30 years old, ... as the singer’s body was found floating in the Mississippi River after he went missing six days prior on May 29.

The Black Hawk Bridge, which connects Lansing, Iowa to rural Crawford County in Wisconsin, reopened June 9. It closed May 17 after one of its support piers moved slightly. The movement may have ...

SAVANNA, Ill. — Authorities have confirmed that the body of a missing boater has been recovered from the Mississippi River. The man, described as being in his 60s, went missing Saturday, May 31 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville family now has closure after remains found in the Mississippi River three years ago have been identified. The family of 26-year-old Robert Eaton had been searching ...

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their farms and homes from floods. The Trump Administration is ready to move ...