It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

A map from the USGS showed that some rivers were 23,000 percent of their normal median level or higher as of Friday morning.

The first map of the United States drawn and printed in America ... extend west of the Mississippi River—"Manifest Destiny for the 18th century," says Edward Redmond, the library's curator ...

Though his etymology was off—the Ojibwe words that gave us Mississippi (Misi-ziibi) actually mean “long river”—the idea has proven durable. “Ol’ Man River” buoyed Show Boat ...

Action News 5's Joyce Peterson explores the various remaining gauges that have helped measure Mississippi River levels ...

Mississippi skies are clear and sunny now, but a threat looms after last week's storms: Likely flooding of the Mississippi River and some tributaries.