It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

Trump's call to abolish FEMA as Mississippi sees more frequent, extreme flooding, prompts group to name river the nation's most endangered waterway.

Old Man River, indeed. Still, 70 million years ago the Mississippi was nowhere near as large as it would become. Blum has detailed how the waterway grew as it added tributaries: the Platte ...

Multiple tributaries of the Mississippi River in the Memphis District saw “unprecedented rainfall,” including the St. Francis/Little River basin and the Obion, Forked Deer and Loosahatchie riv ...

Multiple tributaries of the Mississippi River in the Memphis District saw "unprecedented rainfall," including the St. Francis/Little River basin and the Obion, Forked Deer and Loosahatchie rivers ...

The group cited widespread flooding along both the Mississippi and its Missouri River tributary in 2019 that ... including updating flood risk maps, improving land-use standards and making ...