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

There are at least 260 species of fish in the Mississippi, according to the National Park Service. That’s 25 percent of all fish species in North America. Those fishing in the river could pull ...

Mississippi skies are clear and sunny now, but a threat looms after last week's storms: Likely flooding of the Mississippi River and some tributaries.

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” ...