A $40 million project is restoring vanishing islands and backwaters in the Mississippi River, protecting habitats from erosion.

If you're driving south along Wisconsin's western border, you're not just driving along the Mississippi River — you're also passing by the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.

Lurking beneath the murky surface of the Mississippi River are creatures so strange that experts who study them still marvel ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, marked the completion of its $25 million McGregor Lake habitat ...

QUINCY (WGEM) - Hundreds of dead carp are washing ashore along the Mississippi River, and state wildlife officials say hot ...

A $10 million investment will fund seven projects aimed at making national wildlife refuge lands along the upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers more resilient to climate change, the U.S. Fish and ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is celebrating 100 years in action. 3.7 million visitors annually come to the Mississippi River corridor and refuge to ...

MADISON, Wis.MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge has temporarily blocked plans to build a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River wildlife refuge, saying he wants to see documents detailing the ...

MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. — Sabrina Chandler spent much of her life on the other end of the Mississippi River. Growing up on the Gulf Coast near New Orleans, where levees wall the river off, she had to ...

BROWNSVILLE, Minn. -- On the Mississippi River below the verdant bluffs that mark the far southern Minnesota-Wisconsin line, the federal government is waging a multi-million dollar campaign against ...