Barge traffic on the river's northern stretch halts each year until springtime because the river freezes over.

In another sign of winter, the last Mississippi River barge departed St. Paul last weekend. According to the U.S. Army Corps ...

Susan Gaunt Stearns, associate professor of history, has published "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and ...

Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative announced a new insurance pilot, with hopes of better helping river towns ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, saw the last barge of the year, the Motor Vessel Ashley Danielson, ...

On a mid-November morning, a stately white fishing boat named the Royster peeled away from the harbor and motored toward a ...

This roundup of top itineraries can help you choose from cruises of various lengths and options for the Lower, Upper or full ...

Boardman gathered about 65,000 acorns this year, which will be planted in the river floodplain in an attempt to grow new, ...

Henry Schoolcraft mounted a small expedition to search for the headwaters of the Mississippi River, hoping to succeed where ...

Casey Faulkenberry ended up reeling in a 30 1⁄2-inch walleye – the largest he’d caught in his life. The fish was just what ...

Flowing, and sometimes meandering, for 3,767 km from Minnesota’s Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico, the river touches 10 ...