A car ferry moves people and vehicles between Lansing, Iowa and Wisconsin on the Mississippi River, but business owners say they still are feeling the effects of the closure of the Black Hawk Bridge, a year and a half before the replacement bridge is set to open.
The population of Lansing may have doubled Friday morning as the community and onlookers watched a planned implosion of the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River.
The Black Hawk Bridge across the Mississippi River at Lansing in northeast Iowa will close for good Monday morning — more than a year before its replacement is scheduled to open.
Dozens of metrics are used to determine drought, which can make it complicated to measure and track. The new government dashboard makes it easier to track drought across the Mississippi River Basin.
LST-325 is the last fully operational World War II "landing ship, tank" of its kind, first commissioned on Feb. 1, 1943.
Black Hawk Bridge, a historic structure that links Lansing, Iowa, and western Wisconsin over the Mississippi River, will be demolished later this year, more than a year before construction of a replacement bridge is scheduled to be completed.
On a recent two-day trip seeking Iowa history, Marion and Rich Patterson discovered that Keokuk is much like its abundant geodes: ordinary on the outside, and sparkling on the inside.
Pattison Sand Company has asked to nearly quadruple the amount of water it pumps from wells and surface waters to expand its quarrying operation. Some worry it might lead to out-of-state water sales.
In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at a lawsuit that targets the 40-year-old “Swampbuster” law that aims to prevent farmers from destroying wetlands.
The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to cut flood relief programs as severe weather threats grow.
Congress mentioned Millville as part of a proposed postal route in 1846.
A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River basin with a federally funded commission.
The potential for flooding events in the region has decreased even more in the past two weeks, the National Weather Service’s Quad Cities Bureau says
Research shows that across the globe, rivers that freeze are freezing later and melting earlier, and that includes the Mississippi. By the end of the century, one climate model suggests, the river may only reliably freeze near the Twin Cities — dramatically altering a way of life for the people and animals that use it farther downstream.
Act allows flood control studies and projects along the river, including in Iowa
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