The largest fish ever caught in the Mississippi was a 131-pound blue catfish caught by Eugene Cronley on April 7, 2022, near Natchez, Mississippi.

RiverBeat 2025 featured more than 50 performances across five stages May 2-4 at Tom Lee Park in Memphis — and we were there ...

The U.S. Justice Department has lifted a decades-old school desegregation order in Louisiana, calling its continued existence ...

New photos highlight the construction on the Mississippi River Bridge at Lansing as crews continuing to make progress.On the ...

The bridges, which engineers say are still safe to cross, face threats from age, pests and even saltwater. Here’s what that ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

The biological mother of a dead newborn found floating on the Mississippi River in 2011 is facing criminal charges.

The biological mother of the dead newborn found floating on the Mississippi River in 2011 is facing criminal charges. Jennifer Nichole Baechle, 43, is facing two counts of second-degree manslaughter ...

Rising water from the Mississippi River is putting emergency crews and neighbors in Vicksburg on alert. In early April, Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs, ...

Living Lands & Waters is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1998 by Chad Pregracke. While living and working on the river around his home in East Moline, Illinois, Pregracke was disturbed by ...

Meteorologist Devon Lucie covers the Mississippi levels showing you what the stages are in different locations and how highs it's expected to crest, ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - With the Mississippi River projected to rise above 15 feet at the Carrollton Gage on Tuesday, the U.S.