A dam emergency has been issued due to lake levels in Arkabutla, Mississippi, expected to surpass 220 feet within the next ...

Minnesota DNR water quality specialist Rob Burdis drills into ice Jan. 22, 2025, on Peterson Lake, which is part of the ...

Take a look at these facts and make yourself a river expert in no time. The Mississippi begins at Minnesota’s Lake Itasca. Visitors there can see the headwaters and cross the river on foot ...

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

The lake sturgeon is an ancient fish species that lives primarily in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River drainage. It has declined by roughly 99 percent over the past century because of ...

and that includes the Mississippi. Its longest record of ice cover comes from Lake Pepin, a reservoir of the river that stretches 21 miles between Reads Landing and Red Wing, Minnesota.