A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River basin with a federally funded commission. “This is a bill that’s way past its due,” said U.S. Rep.

The Mississippi River has been on the rise, as tends to happen this time of year, but while relatively minor precautions are being put in place by the Army Corps of Engineers, an opening of the ...

"It's one of the most dramatic changes on the upper Mississippi," Larson ... on this part of the upper river, particularly on a section of it called Pool 4, near Alma, and Pool 8, near La Crosse.

NEW ORLEANS — The Mississippi River at the Carrollton gauge in New Orleans has risen above 11 feet, prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to activate Phase I flood fight procedures ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will lead a second intensive invasive carp removal effort in Pool 8 of the Mississippi River near La Crosse, Wis. Thirty-four silver carp were ...