FARGO — The Mighty Mississippi is trying hard to change its course. Due to the buildup of silt, a significant portion of the water in the lower Mississippi actually reaches the Gulf through the ...

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta's Yazoo Backwater. It took more than six months to recede. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on a pumping ...

Congress has approved funding for the Army Corps of Engineers to study how the Mississippi River is changing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wisconsin has one of the world's most important bodies of water right next door. Nope, we're not talking about Lake Michigan, or ...

The Mississippi River is the largest in the nation and is of great importance for commerce, recreation and wildlife. It creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue, but how much do ...

The Mississippi River's water levels are the lowest they have been in a decade. The river is the second largest in the U.S. and provides drinking water to around 20 million people but as water levels ...