The supply chain across the nation's heartland is facing significant constraints that could have far-reaching consequences into the winter, starting with farmers in the Plains and expanding all the ...

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — We talk a lot about the water levels on the Mississippi River. Sometimes the river runs high, sometimes it runs low, like it has in recent days. When we communicate how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People watch the sun set while wading in the Lake Michigan water on a June summer evening in Michigan City, Indiana. Millions of ...

The U.S. Coast Guard broadcast warnings to barge operators and sent a crew to Cape Girardeau Friday after an enormous storage tank broke free in a flash flood and lodged itself in the shipping channel ...

The Mississippi River is a superhighway for American agricultural products, but a warm fall and extreme drought conditions have contributed to its water levels dropping to record lows. Special ...

When it was first constructed in July, the sill at the bottom of the Mississippi River north of Myrtle Grove in Plaquemines Parish gave the river a uniform depth of about 60 feet. The idea was to ...

Millions of acres of wetlands across the country lost protections that existed under the Clean Water Act after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year left it up to states to decide the extent of ...