Legal agreements govern the Great Lakes and some river systems in the U.S., but the Mississippi River doesn’t have a compact.

The unlawful dumping contaminated the critical river and other local lakes, the Department of Justice said. The true number ...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (CN) — East St. Louis’ sewer system has repeatedly discharged untreated sewage into the Mississippi ...

Federal and state governments are asking residents to share their experiences with sewage problems and give input on ...

A new agreement will transfer the sacred Sugarloaf Mound in St. Louis back to the Osage Nation. The site is the oldest ...

Construction of the southern span of the two-span bridge has been completed. The northern span will be built over the next ...

Commercial traffic on the Mississippi River connected St. Louis to the south, most notably New Orleans, which was and still is one of America’s largest ports. Flatboats would cruise the ...

The Jesuit explorer, who came from France as a missionary to Canada in 1666, was one of the first Europeans to name the ...

This story was originally published by St. Louis Public Radio ... elderly poll workers whose vehicle was swept from a state ...

The federal government filed suit against East St. Louis on Wednesday, alleging the city's practice of repeatedly dumping untreated sewage in the local community violates federal ...

I have lived in Baton Rouge my entire life, and my children and grandchildren also live here, Rolfe McCollister writes in his ...

Long before there was a Great River Road, about 27,000-and-a-half years ago, a mastodon once stood atop the bluffs ...