Water levels on portions of the Mississippi and lower Ohio rivers have dropped low enough to significantly hinder shipping across the inland waterway system. This marks the third year in four that ...

The Mississippi River’s connection to Louisiana is existential. The river built the land on which many of us reside. As long as there have been humans here, it has been a crucial source of food and ...

The lower Mississippi River’s pilotage system underwent a major shift this summer when the Crescent River Port Pilots’ Association quietly began assigning two pilots to certain large cargo vessels ...

New details are emerging about the fateful morning when Wisconsin graduate student Eliotte Heinz was discovered lifeless in the Mississippi River, as locals vividly recount the chilling moment a ...