American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, said the Mississippi River in recent years has faced “increasingly ...

The list calls attention to the threats rivers face and prioritizes those for which the public can influence policies that ...

The river is threatened primarily by FEMA's uncertain future, said American Rivers, an environmental group based in ...

The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to ...

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” ...

A Florida man who has been missing since March was found dead in the Mississippi River Monday. On Thursday, East Baton Rouge Coroner's Office in Louisiana identified the body as Jody Bert ...

In response to rising water levels on the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District ...

The river could stay above 50 feet for about two weeks, Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center senior hydrologist David Welch said Monday. The rain has stopped for now, but the basin is not yet ...