Not enough water to go around: Colorado River Basin, ravaged by drought, plans for a drier future 13:42. A steamboat known as the North Alabama sank in 1870, heading to the bottom of the Missouri ...

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America, stretching for 2,341 miles from its source in the Rocky Mountains of Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi River in St. Louis ...

Kris Laurie, a former Peace Corps volunteer and National Park Service ranger, quietly completed a source-to-sea descent of the Missouri-Mississippi river system worth a longer look. Between April ...

Greg Olson shows a map to two groups of students riding in boats on the Missouri River Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. The map symbolized the multitude of Indigenous communities who lived around the river ...

As the state’s most plentiful and reliable water source, state leaders would like more of the river’s water to be put to use. “North Dakota has a lot of water with the Missouri River, and it ...

A series of flood control reservoirs backed up by massive dams is a key factor driving the high water currently swelling the Missouri River. The abnormally high flow on the upper Missouri River ...

Aug. 18—This summer's drought and the emerging environmental threats posed by global warming might underscore the need for a backup water source for Fargo and the Grand Cities, but the $1.22 ...