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 ...

With all the spectacular options available to you, it can often be difficult to decide on which of the best places to road ...

It had become part of the border between nations, for once you crossed the Mississippi River you found yourself in French territory ... you were vacationing in Spanish territory. Map showing ...

An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana’s drinking water supplies, is once again ...

Crews last week exhumed his body and took DNA samples they will compare with others in a national database that did not exist ...

For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest are drawing down water levels on the Mississippi River ...

Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable has traveled the state for months to host trainings called the “Power of the Sister Vote ...

This was the Río del Espíritu Santo—the river, nearly every scholar agrees, that local tribes called the Mississippi. Santa ...

Armed with new protections, this turtle could be the catalyst for halting a huge and controversial engineering project ...

Devros is a graduate student and researcher from the University of Southern Mississippi, and he’s working to tag and ...

(Bloomberg) -- Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil shipments of everything from corn to gasoline. Dry conditions ...

A team of Mississippi alligator hunters have put some ... Sasser, the tag-holder, was hunting in the Yazoo River near Vicksburg. Her hunting party consisted of her mother and father, Marty and ...