Trump's call to abolish FEMA as Mississippi sees more frequent, extreme flooding, prompts group to name river the nation's most endangered waterway.

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

The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to ...

Though his etymology was off—the Ojibwe words that gave us Mississippi (Misi-ziibi) actually mean “long river”—the idea has proven durable. “Ol’ Man River” buoyed Show Boat ...