The Mississippi River from its humble beginning at Lake Itasca to St. Louis and beyond, is a treasured resource that we ...

While it is helpful that the invasive carp school when the water gets cold in the winter, the elements make it more ...

A man was found dead inside a vehicle partially submerged in the Mississippi River on Sunday morning ... hadn’t identified the man or announced his cause of death. ©2025 The Minnesota Star Tribune.

MINNEAPOLIS — Officials are investigating after a man was found dead in a car that was partially submerged in the Mississippi River on Sunday morning. Minneapolis park police say they got a call ...

Extreme cold is moving into Minnesota for the weekend with frigid weather hanging around until Tuesday. (David Joles/The ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of the newly approved Water Resources Development Act.

Most schools across Minnesota are off Monday due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Some of the remaining districts ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released its 2024 navigational statistics for the St. Paul district, which paints a picture of how much boat traffic the Upper Mississippi River saw in 2024, and ...

As winter weather comes down from the north, bringing with it ice along the Mississippi River, eagles, trumpeter swans, and ...

The Mississippi River is the second-longest river in the U.S., second only to the Missouri River. The river passes through 10 states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky ...

For the past few decades, the trees that grow in the Mississippi River floodplain ... forest cover along the stretch of the river from Minnesota down to Clinton, Iowa decreased by roughly 6% ...

For most, it’s hard to imagine paddling the entire length of the Mississippi River, from its headwaters at Minnesota’s Lake ...