LAKE ITASCA, Minn. — Everything starts somewhere and the Mississippi River starts here. Kneel at the water’s edge and you can hear it; a whispery gurgle as the water moves across the rocks ...

You’ll find the Mississippi at its narrowest point at its headwaters in Lake Itasca, where it’s between 20 and 30 feet. The river’s widest point is only about 50 miles east, at Lake ...

Guardians lead Twins by 3½ games. The division rivals play four this weekend.

Jim Noren, St. Paul District hydrologist in charge of the headwaters reservoirs water levels, said the primary goal is lowering the reservoir levels to gain storage capacity by March 1.

Children walk across the rocks at the outlet of Lake Itasca where the lake water becomes the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota. Jim Seida / MSNBC.com July 30, 2004, 4:32 PM EDT ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is on track to complete its annual drawdowns for the Mississippi River Headwaters reservoirs and Red Lake. $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW Read ...

The phrase “Mississippi River” conjures a swirl of images in our collective imagination: wide, turbulent, muddy waters; chugging steamships and heavily laden barges; violent, life-altering ...

Minnesota to take the pulse of the Mississippi River, from the headwaters to Iowa ... $9 million a year from the state’s Clean Water Fund to monitor rivers and lakes and it will be funded with ...

Two Wisconsin men are paddling the full length of the Mississippi River, chasing a bucket list adventure that’s been decades in the making.

The state hugs 45 miles of Lake Michigan’s shoreline and is home to the headwaters of the Maumee River, which flows into Lake Erie and is the largest river basin in the Great Lakes.