This charming, Midwestern city along the Mississippi River offers a wide variety of activities, whether you're looking to ...

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

Gov. Tony Evers signed a proclamation declaring June 2 National Mississippi River Day in Wisconsin, saying the river helps ...

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 ...

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 channel of open water in ice on Lake Pepin along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border was ... concerns for the Mississippi River watershed, the world’s fourth largest. As state and federal officials ...

More than 50 mammal species in the Upper Mississippi. The Mississippi River basin encompasses parts of 31 states and two Canadian provinces and is over 1,245,000 square miles in size.

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 ...

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi ... spot in the river’s shipping channel is about 2 miles — in Lake Pepin, on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Barges float on the Mississippi River on the southern edge of the St. Louis riverfront. As drought and flooding impact the river, mayors along the waterway are calling for a multi-state legal ...