Snowmelt, the single biggest predictor of the river's spring flood risk, won't play a big role this year as there wasn't much snow to begin with across the river basin.

(John Doman / Pioneer Press) Wondering how long the Mississippi River is? Or how much water ... on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin. All that water has to go somewhere. It eventually finds ...

State highway departments east of the Mississippi River are entering construction season with a series of projects to address road quality and safety in the tri-state area.

A Wisconsin crop farmer says transportation issues have been one of his biggest concerns this year. “Living in west-central ...

Traci DuBose moved 600 miles to Wisconsin last summer to start her ... studying threatened freshwater mussels in the Mississippi River and elsewhere. DuBose is one of about a half-dozen scientists ...

A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River basin with a federally ...

The northern Mississippi River typically thaws at the end of March. This year, the last ice floated downstream at the end of ...