Each day this week, the Des Moines Register will be presenting one of the daily maps for RAGBRAI 2025. Here's today's.

Trump's call to abolish FEMA as Mississippi sees more frequent, extreme flooding, prompts group to name river the nation's most endangered waterway.

with the French explorer Jacques Marquette reaching Iowa in 1673 and providing the first European maps of the Upper Mississippi River. Clayton County’s Marquette is named after him. By the early ...

The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to ...

Several viewers of a TV station in Cedar Rapids spotted a fin in the water a wondered if a shark had swum to Iowa up the Mississippi River. A television station in Cedar Rapids has received ...