Year-over-year Mississippi River levels at St. Louis and Memphis are currently measuring above last year. But, without significant rain in the forecast and concerns for the volume of water coming from ...

ALTON - The Mississippi River Water Trail organization will host their tenth annual Mississippi Meanderings speaker series ...

Three teenagers who disappeared after falling into the Mississippi River near the Crescent City Connection. A Chalmette actor who had a recurring role in HBO's "Treme." A 55-year-old barge worker who ...

The nonprofit organization, Wings2Water, is accepting grant applications for 2026.The group works to restore water quality in ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now differentiate between human-derived and hydrological ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Saltwater intrusion typically happens every year closer to the mouth of the Mississippi River. Some years, it can creep too far upstream when the river is low, which is what’s ...

Southeast Louisiana is abnormally dry. The top and bottom of the Mississippi River has had high streamflows this month, but about a quarter of gauges throughout the basin show below-normal flow.

Fewer bushels loaded on to each vessel increased the cost of freight and transportation to export markets out of New Orleans, ...

Water levels in parts of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are likely to reach critically low stages soon, forcing shippers to light-load harvest-season grain barges for the fourth year in a row.

To make the photography exhibition “Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed,” Floc’h, a French photographer, drove 13,000 miles tracking the river system that touches more than 30 ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. Barge companies are urging President Obama to declare an emergency along the Mississippi River. After a summer of drought, water levels on the river are near-record lows, and ...