COON RAPIDS, Minn — A mystery has been swirling around the Mississippi River all week: Where did a sheen on the water come from? The sheen was first reported on Tuesday, at the Highway 610 Bridge in ...
Standing alone in the Mississippi River are strange stone towers that look abandoned today, but they once controlled the ...
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) — As warmer weather brings more people back onto the Mississippi River, local safety officials are ...
Dubuque, Iowa has a growing community of retirees who enjoy its scenic setting on the river, its vibrant arts and cultural ...
Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.
Wisconsin has one of the world's most important bodies of water right next door. Nope, we're not talking about Lake Michigan, or Lake Superior. We're talking about the Mississippi River. The river ...
The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's future, according to an environmental group based in Washington ...
American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization, named the Mississippi River the "most endangered river" of 2025. The group publishes a list yearly of at-risk rivers that the public ...