Spanning nearly 1,000 acres, Pikes Peak State Park is famed for its 500-foot bluff, which provides a spectacular vantage point of the confluence of the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The Mississippi River is the natural resource of water that runs south into the Gulf of Mexico. It runs through various locations in the US, including in the Quad Cities, but ...

The three Corps districts that maintain the Mississippi north of its confluence with the Ohio River in Cairo, Illinois, have to move mountains of sand every year. They shifted almost 8.8 million ...

The three Corps districts that maintain the Mississippi north of its confluence with the Ohio River in Cairo, Illinois, have to move mountains of sand every year. They shifted almost 8.8 million ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — People living along the Mississippi River watched warily Sunday as water levels rose in southeast Iowa and northwest Illinois, awaiting spring crests as floodwaters began ...

Many of the early German settlers formed strong ethnic communities in Mississippi River towns like Dubuque and Davenport. They also quickly fanned out across the state to every Iowa county during ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews use dredges and pipes to move silt onto an underwater sill along the bottom of the Mississippi River on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, about 20 miles downriver from New ...

The river is expected to crest at around 21.6 feet on Monday in the Quad-Cities area, where several neighboring cities sit along the Iowa-Illinois line. Some roads and parks near the river are closed.

The three Corps districts that maintain the Mississippi north of its confluence with the Ohio River in Cairo, Ill., have to move mountains of sand every year. They shifted almost 8.8 million cubic ...