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

Ten states could see flooding continue throughout the rest of this week and perhaps longer even though rain has moved on.

based on the age of zircon fragments they excavated from sandstone in southern Illinois, that the river began flowing much earlier—some 70 million years ago. The Mississippi was thus born when ...

ALTON The Illinois Department of Transportation today announced intermittent lane closures will be encountered on the US 67 Clark Bridge over the Mississippi ...

An atmospheric river is bringing multiple rounds of heavy rainfall across the Midwestern and Southern U.S. this week.