President Trump is not the first to downplay providing federal emergency relief. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, ...

LAKE ITASCA, Minn. — Everything starts somewhere and the Mississippi River starts here. Kneel at the water’s edge and you can hear it; a whispery gurgle as the water moves across the rocks ...

Perhaps the beauty and mystique of the Mississippi River is an acquired taste, best enjoyed from the water itself. As seen from the road that parallels the river for most of its nearly 2,400-mile ...

The Mississippi River is forecast to reach 17 feet at the Carrollton Gauge in New Orleans Tuesday, which is the marker for flood stage. To manage the rising river, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

Preparations begin as Mississippi River flood waters are on the way. Brian Todd, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn. Updated Wed, April 19, 2023 at 12:18 AM UTC. 4 min read. Apr. 18—WABASHA, Minn.

After rapidly overflowing its banks and pouring into homes and businesses along its upper reaches, the Mississippi River has crested in much of the Upper Midwest, easing fears of a record disaster ...

Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at 920-996-7266 or [email protected] .

The river is expected to rise above 11 feet on Tuesday, May 14, triggering the Corps to begin twice-a-week inspections of the river levee system, and to restrict below-ground work near the levees.

A record-breaking drought throughout the Mississippi River basin is finally beginning to ease, federal officials say. Low water levels impacted barge traffic and grain exports this fall by slowing ...

In a typical year, low water levels on the river begin to abate around early December, said Jeff Graschel, a National Weather Service hydrologist at the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center in ...

The gates at Lock and Dam No. 5A near Fountain City. Wis., were open to allow water to flow freely Friday, March 27, 2020, on the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River is expected to crest the ...