Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

The Amite River Basin Commission recently outlined 13 major projects in its first master plan. Of the costs estimated, the plan could reach more than $3.8 billion. Bayou Manchac improvements: Cost ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf.

Climate change is making that queen even more capricious. Scientists have documented increased rainfall in the Mississippi River Basin, as well as extreme droughts. “In April, down here ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

According to the North Central River Forecast Center in Chanhassen, Minnesota, the Mississippi River at Rock Island is expected to reach its 15-foot flood stage by 1 p.m. Wednesday.

About 25 million people, or 8% of the population of the U.S., live in the Ohio River basin. The river spans 981 miles, starting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and flowing to Cairo, Illinois, where it ...

The Amite River Basin Commission, a Baton Rouge regional agency most tied to the long-running Comite River Diversion Canal, has aimed big with its first master plan.

One of the Quapaw Canoe Company’s popular trips is an excursion to a chain of river islands between Mississippi and Arkansas that formed around the 1829 wreck of the steamboat Montezuma.

ALTON — Researchers have confirmed at least two bull shark sightings in the Mississippi River over the last 100 years. In both cases, bull sharks managed to swim upstream past St. Louis — more ...

Wyatt Nance, 15, needed a project that benefits the community to become an Eagle Scout. He set his sights on an entire ...

Imagine waking up to find the beating heart of America’s waterway silenced—no more mighty Mississippi, no more sprawling basin feeding the nation. It sounds impossible, ...