In the Upper Mississippi River system, state resource management agencies, federal agencies and others have positioned themselves for success. Let’s do the same throughout the basin.

The saltwater is threatening drinking water supplies in the New Orleans metro area. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built an underwater levee to stop the intrusion.

More than a third of the rain in the United States ends up in the Mississippi River system. Jones says with little or no rainfall coming from the Midwest, the drought is causing problems along the ...

The lock-and-dam system through which 175 million tons of freight travels on the upper Mississippi River each year is sorely outdated, and vulnerable to failure that could have a profound effect ...

The National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution map of waterways, created by the US Geological Survey, is the highest-resolution survey of its kind. With nearly 25 million rivers, streams ...

The Mississippi River is a big deal. One of the world’s great rivers, it hosts an abundance of wildlife habitat, provides drinking water for almost 20 million people and carries more than 500 ...

Darryl Rivers was one of more than a dozen official visitors to Mississippi State this weekend. The talented defensive lineman came away impressed.

The Louisiana state agency overseeing one of America's largest ports by volume suffered a cyber-attack in last year that cost it more than $420,000, a newly public audit has found.

ST. LOUIS – Why did the tornado cross the river? To get to the other state. At least three times this year, tornadoes have crossed the Mississippi River from Missouri into Illinois, including ...

Map of low oxygen levels during a July 20-21, 2011, cruise east of the Mississippi River, with hypoxia, levels between zero and 2 parts per million in bottom water, in red, outlined by the black line.

The saltwater is threatening drinking water supplies in the New Orleans metro area. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built an underwater levee to stop the intrusion.

The saltwater is threatening drinking water supplies in the New Orleans metro area. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built an underwater levee to stop the intrusion.