ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The mighty Missouri River is the longest in the United States, flowing over 2,000 miles from its headwaters in Northern Montana all the way to the Show Me ...

Those levees compressed the river's floodwaters, forcing the Missouri up and over the structures. In October 2011, Brigadier General John McMahon, who oversees the Missouri, acknowledged that fact.

ST. LOUIS - WANTED: Volunteers willing to get fingernails dirty and clothes potentially wet, plucking litter and other unsightly stuff from along 170 miles of the Missouri River. Eight-week "Voyage ...