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.

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 ...

The river is threatened primarily by FEMA's uncertain future, said American Rivers, an environmental group based in ...

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's future, according to an environmental group based in Washington ...

With budget losses to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, mitigation grant programs ...

The list calls attention to the threats rivers face and prioritizes those for which the public can influence policies that affect their well-being.

RAGBRAI ended in Guttenberg in 1980, 1987, 1996, 2005 and 2014. When you line up for the Mississippi River tire dip, remember ...