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

State and federal authorities in Louisiana celebrated breaking ground on an ambitious $330 million conservation project ...

When planning our Great River Road trip, I pondered what Mississippi River songs might be out there. To me every good road ...

This is the highway that inspired Steinbeck, Disney and the hit Get your Kicks on Route 66, penned by 1940s songwriting ...

River communities have suffered repeated losses. But federal disaster funding can take weeks, months or even years to pay out ...

It’s hard to separate the Great River Road in Mississippi from its counterpart, the Blues Highway. The history explored by ...

Mayors along the Mississippi River have watched for years as intensifying ... Instead, it paid for road and water-line repairs through its Department of Public Works’ annual budget.