LeClaire, Iowa sits quietly along the Mississippi River, offering a perfect blend of small-town tranquility and unexpected sophistication that makes you wonder why you haven’t visited sooner. This ...

In the 1800s, this was where the most skilled river pilots lived – the daredevils who guided steamboats through the treacherous Upper Rapids, memorizing every hidden rock and swirling eddy that could ...

A crucial National Weather Service office, battered by cuts, is trying to put on a brave face as tornado season peaks.

According to forecasters at AccuWeather, the most intense weather on Saturday is expected from eastern Oklahoma and Texas to ...

A new University of Mississippi project maps the state's often-overlooked religious diversity, blending historical research, ...

MORE: Underwater camera captures elusive tentacled creature 3 miles below ocean surface Due to its geological formations, the Mississippi region is known for its fossils, but this was especially ...

Working with volunteer citizen scientists from local communities, the Mississippi River Plastic Pollution Initiative records data on the state of plastic pollution along the rive to generate a ...

Other states, such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama ... many southern states as the heat dome pumps air into the region from deep in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...

The bone was found during a geologic survey intended to create a three-dimensional map of the region’s subsurface. MSU doctoral researchers Jonathan Leard and Tim Palmer, both professional geologists ...

They were surveying the area to create a three-dimensional map of the land’s geologic layers, reports the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger’s Brian Broom. They’d already found some treasures ...