Armed with new protections, this turtle could be the catalyst for halting a huge and controversial engineering project ...

River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...

The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits ...

How we turned one of our country’s biggest rivers into a machine — and what happens when that machine starts to break down.

Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi early Thursday as residents in the region braced for possible flooding as tropical storm Francine moved inland.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana's drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third year ...

ST. LOUIS — The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm ...

Even as the hurricane made landfall, Rhome said, flood watches were being declared far from the coast. In Mississippi, the alerts stretched close to the Tennessee border. A map shows the expected ...

It was just two months ago that much of the Mississippi River was above flood stage north of St. Louis. Since then, the river level has dropped steadily. The area south of St. Louis has been hit ...