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F1 Powerboat Midwest Championship returns to Alton
KTVI via Yahoo Sports· 1 day agoFormula 1 Powerboat Midwest Championship racing has returned to Alton, Ill., with boats reaching speeds of 120 mph, and the Mississippi River Fest is...
At the mouth of the Mississippi, Louisiana bears the burden of upstream runoff. Why doesn’t it push...
The Gazette· 2 days agoThe Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force was created in 1997 to address the “dead zone” -- an area...
Not just a Gulf of Mexico problem: Mississippi River farm runoff pollutes upstream waters
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWorsening local effects on health and recreation in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin are spurring...
Real-time data show the air in ‘Cancer Alley’ is worse than expected | New Orleans' Multicultural...
Louisiana Weekly· 3 days agoSince the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as “Cancer Alley.” The ...
Local fishing guide pulls off heroic rescue of 38 dogs treading water
BizPac Review· 18 hours agoWord of the rescue of 38 hunting dogs out on Grenada Lake in Mississippi earlier in June had Gist recounting the tale to Fox News Digital as he explained, “We go about a half ...
U.S. 30/Gateway Bridge in Whiteside County undergoing maintenance
WHBF Davenport via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAnother bridge across the Mississippi River is undergoing maintenance. The Illinois Department of...
Not just a Gulf of Mexico problem: Mississippi River farm runoff pollutes upstream waters
The Biloxi Sun Herald· 3 days agoEditor’s note: This is the third in a five-story series that will examine the slow progress being made on reducing harmful agricultural runoff from the Mississippi
Close call: 38 dogs were close to drowning on a Mississippi lake. But some fishermen had quite a...
WESH 2 Orlando· 19 hours agoThe hound dogs had plunged into a large Mississippi lake while chasing a deer, a diversion during a...
A plan to shield the Great Lakes from invasive carp needs Illinois backing. What's the delay?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 days agoStakeholders around the region have long worried that the rivers and canal system connecting the...
How Cornhole Went Pro
New York Times· 2 days agoThis same night, at the Smoothie King Center across the Mississippi River, the hometown Pelicans were playing the Sacramento Kings for one of the N.B.A.