Shipping season on the upper Mississippi River has ended as the last barges headed south from St. Paul, Minnesota Nov. 25.

ST PAUL, Minn. — Heavy rains have caused flooding across the state and Minnesota's capitol city is closing several roads along the Mississippi River. A 3.2-mile stretch of Shepard Road/ Warner Road ...

A prolonged and dangerous flood event is unfolding along the Mississippi River, where heavy rain that fell this month across the Ohio and Mississippi river basins have pushed the waterway to critical ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn — A stretch of Water Street in St. Paul will soon be closed because of the rising Mississippi River. With a street name like Water, it's no surprise that its nearly annual shutdown is ...

River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river levels are driving up transportation costs for Midwest farmers. The ...

Take one step past the town of Venice, La., and it feels like you’ll fall off into the abyss. It’s far down the road, past absolutely everything, with its only neighbor being the mouth of the ...

The study, released by Zutobi, an online driver-education platform, ranked Mississippi 47th overall ...

Mary Gehman has not only written a book about River Road, she also lives next to the Mississippi in the Ascension Parish town of Donaldsonville. So who better to answer a reader's question about the ...