One Mississippi, an environmental advocacy group, is declaring June 2 the first-ever National Mississippi River Day. Multiple river cities and a few states have formally recognized the day ...

Bridges spanning the Mississippi River in western Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota are sturdy enough to withstand a barge collision, according to Wisconsin DOT.

A major federal study on the future of the lower Mississippi River examining effects in Louisiana and six other states has been paused due to a lack of funding from the Trump administration, the ...

SAVANNA, Ill. (KWQC) - A search in the Mississippi River in Carroll County is ending for the night. According to the Carroll County Emergency Management Director, Jim Klinefelter, crews are ...

SAVANNA, Ill. — Authorities have confirmed that the body of a missing boater has been recovered from the Mississippi River. The man, described as being in his 60s, went missing Saturday, May 31 ...

On this day in 1997, Jeff Buckley's body was found floating in a channel of the Mississippi River after disappearing on May 29.

He said they do live in the Mississippi, but when it’s time to reproduce, they will go down the river to meet up with the male eels--who spend their entire adult lives in the gulf--and will ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Brandon Isabelle, the man accused of shooting his girlfriend to death and throwing their newborn baby into the Mississippi River in 2022, was supposed to stand trial on Monda… ...

Longtime river pilot Mark Delesdernier will be honored with the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award, when LeBoeuf Bros. Towing christens a new tugboat in his honor on Saturday.

Two years after a Louisville man went missing, officials have identified his body as one recovered from the Mississippi River in Missouri.The New Madrid Sheriff's Office received calls about a ...

A body was pulled from the Mississippi River in St. Paul Sunday morning. The discovery was reported at 10:10 a.m., with St. Paul police officers sent to Harriet Island, ...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. (WSIL) -- New Madrid County authorities have identified a man whose remains were found in the Mississippi River in June 2022.