About 25 million people, or 8% of the population of the U.S., live in the Ohio River basin. The river spans 981 miles, ...

If you're going swimming in any of Mississippi's lakes or rivers, you may have a few uninvited guests. Find out which lakes & ...

A temporary bridge closure is expected to affect drivers in Central Mississippi. Officials with the Mississippi Department of ...

Fish consumption advisories are issued at the state level, so different agencies can offer conflicting advice along the Mississippi River, which forms a border between many states in the watershed.

The Mississippi, which flows over 2,000 miles, has a long history in the United States, from being the western border to then becoming the middle marker after the Louisiana Purchase. The river ...

On a hot, sunny afternoon in early June, Austan Goolsbee traded a desk in his bookshelf-lined office at the Federal Reserve ...

For the first time, Minnesota will study the health of the state’s entire stretch of the Mississippi River, from its headwaters near Bemidji to the bluff country where it enters Iowa.

A family outing to an island in the Mississippi river took a grisly turn when that family found human remains on the island.

By Boyce Upholt Photographs by Ashleigh Coleman Louisiana Purchase State Park in Holly Grove ... that stretched all the way to the Mississippi River, to the western edges of what would become ...

Idaho also shares a border with Canada, although it’s only 45 miles long. Washington’s projected losses are the third highest of any state west of the Mississippi River, trailing only ...

And he has on his side powerful Republican senators who disproportionately represent states in the heartland. Barges of soybeans and corn, enter Lock 25 on the upper Mississippi River. The Biden ...