The Mississippi River at Lock & Dam 15, Rock Island, is forecast to reach the 18-foot major flood stage about 7 a.m. Thursday, the 4th of July, according to the ...

ST. LOUIS ( KTVI) — More than 30 feet below the ground in St. Louis’ Forest Park sits a system of tunnels. They’re part of ...

The bodies of three men were recovered from the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday after they went missing while fishing and swimming on a sandbar.

The first detection of invasive carp in Minnesota waters was in 2008, when silver carp were discovered in Pool 8 of the Mississippi, the southernmost section of river between Minnesota and Wisconsin.

A fisherman discovered the body of 22-year-old Viterbo University student Eliotte Heinz in the Mississippi River, miles from where she was last seen in La Crosse.

The Mississippi River wants to change course. The struggle to stop it faces new threats. Of all the levees, gates and walls keeping the Mississippi River in place across the length of America’s ...

Two people died when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, north of St. Louis, on Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

A helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a powerline Thursday, then crashed into a barge and sparked a fire, killing two people, officials said.The two dead were flying in the ...

Two people were killed after a helicopter crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis.

Two people working on powerlines near the Mississippi River died Thursday when their helicopter hit the lines, crashed into a barge and sparked a fire that belched plumes of black smoke, officials ...

A helicopter flying over the Mississippi River in Missouri ran into a powerline then crashed into a barge and sparked a fire, killing two people.