The band Big Blue Sky performs on a riverboat, adding to a long tradition of music inspired and transported by the Mississippi River.

Flooding has even occurred along the Merman River, a Mississippi River tributary in east-central Missouri, Rippey says. Final word: “Turnout has always been good in rural America. People take their ...

The storm sank three freighters near Ludington, and killed as many as 50 duck hunters, who either drowned or froze to death ...

The Chippewa and Black rivers are tributaries of the Mississippi River, which has functioned as a superhighway for invasive ...

only for drought conditions to reemerge in recent weeks along the Ohio River basin, which typically supplies more water to the Mississippi than any other major tributary. Water levels have been ...

ringed by a levee. The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service planned to breach the levee and let the Ouachita River, a tributary of the Mississippi, reconnect the property.

Invasive silver carp have been found in the lower Chippewa and Black rivers in western Wisconsin, the state Department of Natural Resources announced Monday. The find stemmed from a July tip from ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced on Oct. 28 that silver carp, an invasive species, have been ...

This fish was originally captured and tagged in Pool 5A of the Mississippi ... on the Mississippi River, which would have allowed fish to move upstream into adjacent tributaries.