Action News 5's Joyce Peterson explores the various remaining gauges that have helped measure Mississippi River levels ...

They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta became the richest ...

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.” ...

Adam Andrews of Cottage Grove leads his brother’s dogs, Greg, front, and Kevin, rear, down the beach at Meeker Island Dog Park along the Mississippi River on Saturday, September 9, 2017.

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in St. Paul early Aug. 19, 2009. (John Doman / Pioneer Press) Wondering how long the Mississippi ...

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Vice Chairman of the Red Cross James Fieser. Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, can not tame that lawless stream ...

Luckily some much-needed investments are in process, such as the Mississippi River Ship Channel Dredging Project. If the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act makes it way through Washington ...

Cities along the Mississippi River are closing their floodgates and preparing for water to continue to rise after four days of torrential downpours soaked basin states with up to 15 inches of rain ...

The Mississippi River is expected to remain in the minor flood stage through April, peaking at 37.5 feet by mid-month. After over a foot of rain fell in Memphis this past week, some rivers are in ...