Paducah, Kentucky, along the Ohio River, and Memphis, Tennessee, along the Mississippi River, are areas of concern for flooding early this week. This flooding concern will last through most of April.

The Mississippi River isn’t out of the woods as falling water levels along its major tributaries threaten to deepen a crisis on the U.S.’s main artery for moving vital products. And now the ...

The McAlpine Locks and Dam play a crucial role in helping vessels down the Ohio River, but what else do they do?In this week's Ask Caray, WLKY's Caray Grace took a trip to the McAlpine Locks ...

Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil shipments of everything from corn to gasoline. Dry conditions across the Ohio ...

The Ohio River connects with the Mississippi River about 350-driving-miles south west in Cairo, Illinois – and the river twists and winds its way there through dams built by the U.S. Army Corps ...

They endured the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927, which killed upwards of a thousand people and displaced almost 640,000 people from Illinois to Louisiana.

This is just below the flood stage of 17 feet, and far from a record, but it’s the highest water level in New Orleans since 2020, and comes amid a four-year drought in the Mississippi River Basin.

Long after the rains from early April ceased, flooding is just beginning along part of the lower Mississippi River. More rain will eye some of the same areas hit by flooding and new territory in ...

Big Blue Sky member Sophia Landis plays a Native American-style flute during a music cruise Friday, September 13, 2024 on the Mississippi River between Marquette, Iowa and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

When I was first hired to cover the Mississippi River basin for the Journal Sentinel in 2022, I knew I'd be spending a lot of time in the car driving along the river. And as anyone who spends a ...

And as bitter cold set in this week – and didn't go away – some wonder if we'll ever see one of the largest river basins east of the Mississippi River go solid again. Between Jan. 14 and ...