The more than 2,300-mile Mississippi ... the upper parts of the river. Remember to take time to gaze out at the picturesque scenery and the rolling farmlands of America's Midwest before ...

It’s the second-longest river in North America, beaten only by the Missouri River. You’ll find the Mississippi at its narrowest point at its headwaters in Lake Itasca, where it’s between 20 ...

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s ... Cretaceous North America, that gave rise ...

Nearly 30 tornadoes were confirmed after the first wave of the storm, which will extend into the weekend. Mud smeared streets ...

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Vice Chairman of the Red Cross James Fieser. Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, can not tame that lawless stream ...

Wisconsin's western border runs along the Mississippi River for hundreds of miles ... compared 170 of the coziest small towns in America and, lo and behold, Stockholm came out with the highest ...

ST. LOUIS – The “Mighty” Mississippi River is a true giant of American waterways, but if you’re wondering exactly how long it is, don’t expect one single, definitive answer. On Wednesday ...

The Fox Forecast Center is tracking another heightened threat for severe weather with the initial focus on the Texarkana ...

will lead the construction of a $787.5-million replacement of the Interstate 55 bridge crossing the Mississippi River between Tennessee and Arkansas at Memphis. The project, also dubbed America ...

“Everything that has to do with the river affects Vicksburg,” said Mayor George Flaggs Jr., co-chair of the Mississippi River ... infrastructure along America’s largest river.