The Great River Road in Wisconsin is one of the most scenic portions of the entire trip down the Great River Road.

Supporters say the bill, if passed this time around, could be "transformative" for the river, which is facing a slew of ...

I hope to continue this work and marry it with my prior beat, putting a spotlight on the growing ways the environment affects ...

SHELBY, Wisconsin — If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson can still remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of her looked as recent as a decade ago: nothing but open, muddy water.

The Mississippi River is the second-longest river in the U.S., second only to the Missouri River. The river passes through 10 states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky ...

SHELBY, Wis. — If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson still can remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of her looked as recent as a decade ago: nothing but open, muddy water.

Larson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and Alicia Carhart, Mississippi River vegetation specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, surveyed the plants by ...

But the thousands upon thousands of them he gathers to share with people working to improve habitat along the Mississippi River makes the 81-year-old resident of De Soto, Wisconsin, a small ...

I had dabbled in environmental reporting at the Post-Crescent, but when I saw the Journal Sentinel was hiring a reporter to cover western Wisconsin and the Mississippi River basin, I jumped at it.