The more than 2,300-mile Mississippi River invites travelers to discover its multifaceted heritage, with a vast range of ...

If rivers could talk, the St. Croix and the Mississippi would be bickering. The St. Croix is pristine. The Mississippi is dirtier, more dangerous and more commercial. The St. Croix glitters with fancy ...

If you’re an American, you’ve somehow been touched by the Mississippi River. From the musings of Mark Twain to the birth of the blues and Dixieland jazz, the Mississippi is part of the patchwork of ...

Forty years ago, in 1983, John Ruskey embarked on a raft trip from home state of Colorado, traversing rivers in an attempt to get to the Gulf of Mexico. Five months into the expedition, he wound up ...

For as long as people have been on the continental U.S., the Mississippi has been a major artery for commerce. The Coast Guard estimates that now $50 billion to $60 billion of commerce is pushed ...

Abraham Lincoln called it "the Father of Waters"; 18th-century English novelist Frederick Marryat deemed it a "vile sewer" — long before our industrial revolution turned it into one. The American ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – It is probably too much of a good thing for Western New York. We have had multiple days of “off and on rain” that has pushed local rain gauges to higher and higher readings. But how ...