A collision on the Mississippi River near Luling, Louisiana, left a tugboat submerged and its crew scrambling for safety ...

Volunteers are gathering acorns to assist the Army Corps of Engineers in restoring forests along the Mississippi River.

Back-to-back storm systems are forecast to hit the Northeast this week as heavy snow is expected in the Plains region.

Legal agreements govern the Great Lakes and some river systems in the U.S., but the Mississippi River doesn’t have a compact.

Severe weather is expected to keep impacting large parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, after tornadoes and thunderstorms ...

KMA News continues its special series of reports looking back at the top local and regional news stories of the past year.

More:High water and prolonged flooding are changing the ecosystem of the Upper Mississippi River, a new report finds ... identified farther south on the Iowa-Illinois border.

Over 100 mayors from cities along the river have created the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative. They're now working to form a compact through Congress.

Crop consultant Michael Cordonnier says there might be a half million to 1 million U.S. corn acres lost due to the flooding, according to Pro Farmer. Portions of Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska ...

Data from a wide-ranging 2022 report on the upper river's ecological status and trends backs this up — prevalence of wild ...