The Latest Breaking News from the Mississippi River

For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico

The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits

There are more women than men in some of the largest urban U.S. counties east of the Mississippi River, on the Eastern Seaboard and in the Deep South

Week 12's Saints-Falcons matchup will reach a large audience, with coverage extending beyond the Southeast and up the Mississippi River to Minnesota:

An extended drought is causing low water levels in the Mississippi River, posing problems for commerce along key shipping channel.

Drought has allowed sea water to advance up the Mississippi River, putting drinking water and other resources at risk.

Encroaching water from the Mississippi River has necessitated more thorough disinfecting, which leaves behind dangerous chemicals

A massive intrusion of salt water into the Mississippi River has left the tap water in several Louisiana communities unsafe to drink and could threaten the New Orleans metropolitan area. The most visible emergency response is the provision of bottled water, with authorities distributing huge quantities of single-serving plastic water…

Little Deming Lake doesn’t get much notice from visitors to Itasca State Park in Minnesota. There’s better boating on nearby Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. My colleagues and I need to maneuver hundreds of pounds of equipment down a hidden path made narrow by late-summer poison ivy…