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

But they’re disappearing. People fish at the Reno Bottoms in the Mississippi River a result of the degradation of the flood plain forests due to a decade of high water on the river, excess ...

For centuries, America’s relationship with the Mississippi has been fraught. The river’s central location and ... Its broad alluvial plain boasts some of the richest farmland on the planet ...

A new round of heavy rain will target some of the same areas of the central ... Mississippi valleys. Runoff from that rain is just now surging through the lowest portion of the Mississippi River ...

In the alluvial plain known as the Mississippi Delta, the levees were “that big green wall that protects the wealth.” Taming the river allowed the delta’s White planter class to create a ...

senior director for American Rivers’ Central Region. For the Mississippi River, he said, the organization’s goal is to press the federal government to maintain a role in disaster relief ...