The Mississippi River is one of the longest rivers in the world and a vital transportation route in the United States, ...

Perfect for weekend escapes, this Mississippi park offers quiet campgrounds, upgraded cabins, lake views, hiking trails, and ...

A woman in Tylertown, Mississippi, was shocked to see a house floating down the flooded Bogue Chitto River. The structure was later identified as a river camp that had been compromised by erosion. The ...

The Mississippi River snakes below the bluffs at Spring Lake Park Reserve near Hastings, where people stroll or ski along the trails to take in the view of the majestic river. But some local officials ...

A nearly 100-year-old bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin was imploded Friday, an unusual spectacle that clears the way for a modern replacement. The Mississippi River Bridge, ...

A nearly 100-year-old bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin was imploded Friday, an unusual spectacle that clears the way for a modern replacement. 2 feds fired guns in deadly ...

NOTE: NBC Chicago will offer a live stream of the implosion as it begins. Watch live in the player above. Officials originally planned to begin the implosion at 9:30 a.m., but crews were delayed and ...

An Iowa-based author, folklorist and photographer is releasing a new book that chronicles life on the Mississippi River during the 20th century though the words of a commercial fisherman. Sherry ...

In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and heartbreak of ...

The lower Mississippi River’s pilotage system underwent a major shift this summer when the Crescent River Port Pilots’ Association quietly began assigning two pilots to certain large cargo vessels ...