Wisconsin has one of the world's most important bodies of water right next door. Nope, we're not talking about Lake Michigan, or Lake Superior. We're talking about the Mississippi River. The river ...

DE SOTO - At the junction of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, there's a place called Reno Bottoms, where the Mississippi River spreads out from its main channel into thousands of acres of tranquil ...

The mighty Mississippi River, the longest waterway in North America and the fourth-largest in the world, is set to unleash floods in Iowa and Illinois this week after swift snow melting left water ...

Wakpádaŋ (Falls Creek) or Bassett Creek is the first creek that connects with the Mississippi River above St. Anthony Falls.

The infrastructure along the Mississippi River has long protected the New Orleans area from catastrophic flooding. But a list ...

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's future, according to an environmental group based in Washington ...

The Mississippi River is sitting at its lowest level in the city of experts since 2012. We have *** stage around 1.7 ft so that is around eight ft below the average stage for the Mississippi River ...

The bike trail runs 3,000 miles along the river between Minnesota and Louisiana. Most states marked the route with signs, but Wisconsin never did.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Community leaders along the Mississippi River worried that dry southwestern states will someday try to take the river's water may soon take their first step toward blocking such a ...

Few people see the Mississippi River the way John Ruskey does. Ruskey runs Quapaw Canoe Company in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He and his team of guides lead tours of the river in wooden dugout canoes, ...

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