It's not just because I'm partial to Wisconsin's west coast. Our state borders the Mississippi, but the river often seems like an afterthought in conversations about our ecological and economic ...

While Pool 4 has dozens of fish species, the Minnesota DNR keeps closest tabs on its walleyes and sauger – the ...

The northern Mississippi River typically thaws at the end of March. This year, the last ice floated downstream at the end of ...

(John Doman / Pioneer Press) Wondering how long the Mississippi River is? Or how much water ... on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin. All that water has to go somewhere. It eventually finds ...

Unlike last year, though, which began with Wisconsin's warmest winter on ... Most of the upper Mississippi River basin is currently in drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Barge traffic is moving again on the Upper Mississippi River. Patrick Moes with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul ...