Researchers say drought, sea level rise, severe storms and dredging are partly to blame for the increased in frequency and ...

The Mississippi River crested above flood stage on Monday, April 28 in Vicksburg. The National Weather Service (NWS) expects ...

Officials are inspecting the levees daily in New Orleans metro as the Mississippi River continues to rise. Why it matters: ...

A new round of heavy rain will target some of the same areas of the Tennessee, Ohio and middle Mississippi valleys that were swamped by flooding multiple times earlier in April, AccuWeather ...

A charming little city during the day, but when the sun goes down, things tend to go "bump" in the night.

The Mississippi’s ranking comes as cities along the river flooded from torrential rain and as Trump officials consider ...

The 1831 duel between Thomas Biddle and U.S. Rep. Spencer Pettis, D-Mo., began with slights against the former's brother and ...

The surge was just now working slowly downstream along the Mississippi ... well as the Meramec River in Missouri and perhaps the Kaskaskia and Little Wabash rivers in Illinois.

A prolonged flood event is beginning to unfold along the lower Mississippi River, a consequence of the widespread heavy rainfall that drenched the river basin in early April. Experts predict the high ...

52 of the 118 Illinois House district boundaries violate being constitutionally compact. The 2021 legislative redistricting map, used in elections in 2022 and last November, has resulted in ...