It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

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

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 ...

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in ... Minn.; Dubuque, Iowa; St. Louis, Mo.; Memphis, Tenn.; and Baton Rouge and New Orleans ...

The Mississippi River is a giant river that provides abundant resources. But, how big is it, exactly? This animated map shows the scale of the Mississippi River and its drainage system in perspective.

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