The early days of America are often told from the perspective of the East Coast, where George Washington and company forged a ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law –work that advocates believe is ...

About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great ...

On the upper Mississippi, which stretches from the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota to Cairo, Illinois, south of St. Louis, the calmer, shallower offshoots of the river known as the ...

Flowing 2,350 miles south, it flows down through Baton ... caught in Mississippi was a 95lb catfish by Dakota Hinson on the ...