MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The Mississippi River is headed for major flooding in the Metro in the coming days. We’re already seeing moderate flooding shut down some low-lying roads and parks.

The Mississippi passes through or along 10 states. Minnesota is where the river starts out at Lake Itasca. It then passes through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee ...

Work has begun on an underwater levee to block salt water advancing up the Mississippi River and threatening southeast Louisiana drinking water supplies for the third year in a row, the Army Corps ...

Running 2,340 miles long, the Mississippi River starts in Minnesota and ends in the Gulf of Mexico (also known as the Gulf of America), with a nearly never-ending amount of cities built around it ...

What we're talking about is when the water gets exceptionally high, it also starts to move at a fairly quick pace down the Mississippi River, and it's actually the rate of flow, not so much the ...

You can get in touch with Anna by emailing a.skinner@newsweek.com. Languages: English. The Mississippi River is a critical transportation route for agricultural and industrial goods, and high ...

Elizabeth Rhodes is a senior editor at Travel + Leisure, covering everything from luxury hotels to theme parks to must-pack travel products. Originally from South Carolina, Elizabeth moved to New ...

Communities along the freshwater Mississippi River are facing a growing threat from an intrusion of saltwater moving the wrong way up the river from the Gulf of Mexico. It has wreaked havoc on ...