St. Paul’s position at the uppermost navigable point on the Mississippi River superhighway meant it was the nexus between trading networks to the north and west and buyers in the East.

click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

A minor earthquake shook Monroe County in the Metro East on Saturday evening. The magnitude 2.3 quake struck at 6:40 p.m. about 3 miles south of Valmeyer, between that village and Maeystown.

Jan. 23 (UPI) --The largest Indigenous tribe east of the Mississippi River is on its way to federal recognition and full tribal benefits after President Donald Trump's order Thursday. The federal ...

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

Earthquakes are much less frequent in the eastern part of the country than in the west, but they have been documented in every state east of the Mississippi River, according to the U.S. Nearly all ...

East St. Louis residents may be at a significantly ... discharges of untreated wastewater into local lakes and the Mississippi River, according to a complaint filed on Wednesday by the U.S ...

KELLOGG, Minnesota - Standing on the frozen Mississippi River, his back to a few fishers in the distance, Rob Burdis begins to drill a hole into the ice near his feet. Once the drill stops ...