A dark, jagged vein of open water slices through the endless white of a frozen Mississippi River in this 1948 aerial shot. As sub-zero temperatures threatened to stop the flow of post-war commerce, ...

In the most visible sign of progress in replacing the Mandeville fishing pier destroyed by Hurricane Ida more than four years ago, the pier has now been demolished and nearly removed from its site ...

A nearly 100-year-old bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin was imploded Friday, an unusual spectacle that clears the way for a modern replacement. The Mississippi River Bridge, ...

The historic Black Hawk Bridge, which connects Crawford County, Wisconsin, and Lansing, Iowa, was demolished Friday, Dec. 19. Built in 1931 over the Mississippi River, it's called a "singing bridge" ...

An Iowa-based author, folklorist and photographer is releasing a new book that chronicles life on the Mississippi River during the 20th century though the words of a commercial fisherman. Sherry ...

In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and heartbreak of ...

After years of city planning, debate and delay, the St. Paul City Council on Wednesday is poised to approve sweeping new development standards along the Mississippi River that would loosen height ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is sending its famed reconnaissance aircraft into a powerful storm system that threatens widespread flooding and damaging winds for Western ...

Beside the murky waters off Pass Christian, shrimp boats docked in the distance, David Gautier is worried about a threat many miles away that he cannot control. Gautier, 64, runs a seafood business on ...

What St. Louis can learn from New Orleans’s long road to recovery. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, Nine PBS visits New Orleans to uncover lessons in resilience and equity that can guide St.

The Mississippi River Trail runs 3,000 miles for bikers between Minnesota and Louisiana. Today, all municipalities along the Great River Road have signed off on making the trail's Wisconsin portion ...