The Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation launched a free car ferry service on Monday to cross the Mississippi ...

While the upper Mississippi River’s lock and dam system is keeping navigation efficient, low river levels on the lower ...

Gulf shrimp have a sweetness and texture that makes them the royalty of American seafood, and The Reef treats them with appropriate reverence. Plump and perfectly cooked, they snap with freshness and ...

A new Washington Post investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies.

The Pacific Northwest remained under an atmospheric river on Saturday, with the National Weather Service (NWS) issuing warnings for heavy rain, snow and gusty winds across several states.

Fort Madison, Iowa, with its well-preserved riverfront, sits directly across the Mississippi. Keokuk, Iowa, with its impressive lock and dam system, is a short drive downriver. But Nauvoo’s greatest ...

A cloudy, rust-colored liquid plume, roughly the size of a football field, flowed into the Mississippi River last week out of ...

Maps aren’t just for navigation. They’re also about stories, identity, and understanding the world around us–even if the ...

Mississippi River levels are low this fall season—for the third year in a row. “The timing couldn’t be worse,” says Jon Davis, chief meteorologist at Everstream Analytics. “October is a critical month ...

Heavy rainfall will have the potential to produce flooding west of the Cascades in Washington and Oregon,” the CPC said.

Dr. Kevin Gurney, a professor at Northern Arizona University, debuted the first-ever building- and street-level maps of carbon dioxide emissions for Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff. The data, years in ...

In Greenville this year, leaders imposed a strict curfew to curb gun violence. So far, the approach is working, even as some question how far a city should go to fight crime. In Greenville this year, ...