Before the Missouri River became the navigation hub it is today, it was an untamed, wild body of water prone to flooding, known for changing paths, with a floodplain as wide as a mile in some places.

A flood crest is moving down the Missouri River, and it is expected to hit mid-Missouri on Friday morning. The crest, or the peak of floodwaters before they recede, is predicted to reach Boonville ...

Twelve levees have breached along the Missouri River in three states, as historic flooding continues to inundate small towns and farms in southwestern Iowa. Four of the levee breaches were on ...

Forecast crests have slightly decreased from earlier today. The forecast crest has dropped 0.3 feet for the Missouri River at Omaha and Blair respectively, and has dropped 0.1 feet for the ...

Teams competing in the MR340 river race take off down the Missouri River Tuesday starting near Kaw Point. HG Biggs hbiggs@kcstar.com An armada of kayaks, canoes, paddle boards and row boats left ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Tuesday 6:15PM Update: After a very brief increase in river levels early Tuesday morning due to heavy rainfall amounts, the Missouri River at Omaha is now slowly lowering once ...

ONAWA, IOWA -- A leak in a pipeline carrying natural gasoline has the potential to lose about 140,000 gallons of gas in the Missouri River floodplain southwest of Onawa, according to the Iowa ...

How did the Show-Me-State get its name? The Missouri name was initially recorded during an exploration down the Mississippi ...

Several rounds of heavy rain have swept across parts of the mid and upper Missouri River basin over the past seven to 10 days, resulting in moderate to major flooding of the Missouri River and ...

Extreme flooding in the Midwest is expected to make its way down the Missouri River over the next week. Flooding in states like Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota has killed at least two people this ...

Another map published by the agency shows the "expanse of the Mississippi River Basin" as it is "joined by hundreds of tributaries, including those from the Ohio and Missouri Rivers." Again ...