Mississippi River

As journalists who frequently produce stories focused on the environment, St. Louis Public Radio’s Eli Chen and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Bryce Gray…

Updated: 8:50 p.m. May 5 — with information about flood damage to an Illinois American Water plant.Floodwaters have continued to rise over the weekend in…

In an industrial, desolate block of Granite City, artists are presenting videos, photography and sculptures that depict environmental problems in the St.…

Federal officials are encouraging St. Louis residents to enroll in flood insurance, in anticipation of a potentially severe flood season.Most homeowners…

The historic Delta Queen steamboat could be cruising the Mississippi River and other inland waterways in 2020, now that it has received an exemption from…

For breast cancer patients, race and geography can mean the difference between surviving and succumbing.Washington University researchers have identified…

Data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are supporting northeast Missouri residents' suspicions that overbuilt levees along the Upper Mississippi River…

Some heavy equipment is pounding away this week at the rock in a section of the Mississippi River south of St. Louis. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…

Leaders of Mississippi River communities want to update and upgrade their infrastructure, but said Wednesday they’ll need outside financial help.The…

Communities along the upper Mississippi River have seen a major uptick in heavy rains and flooding in the last decade.Residents, environmentalists,…