The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a multimillion dollar contract to a Wisconsin company to repair five Mississippi River locks and dams in the region where western Wisconsin connects to southeastern Minnesota.
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Flood-control work in the Mississippi River and its tributaries has most likely made floods worse in Mississippi and Louisiana, researchers say.
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The sky darkened early here on the evening of July 11, 2016, and the deluge started about 8 p.m.
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Read More »The Army Corps of Engineers has tweaked how it runs Lock and Dam 8 on the Mississippi River in Genoa, Wisconsin, in hopes of impeding the spread upriver of invasive Asian carp.
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Read More »Wisconsin residents are unhappy about plans to convert local farmland to storage for sand dredged from the Mississippi River.
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Read More »The state Department of Natural Resources has given a timber company subsidiary preliminary approval for a sand plant in western Wisconsin that would destroy more than 16 acres of wetlands.
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Read More »President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday mandating a review of an Obama-era rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development and pollution.
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Read More »The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe was unsuccessful Monday in asking a federal judge to recognize three federal agencies' request for a developer to "voluntarily pause" work on a segment of the Dakota Access pipeline that the tribe says holds sacred sites and artifacts.
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Read More »An archaeological study has found thousands of cultural artifacts at a proposed 18-hole golf course the Kohler Co. plans for the shore of Lake Michigan.
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Warm and wet weather over the last several weeks followed by storms that brought a deluge of rain in recent days have produced a severe threat of flooding along the Mississippi River, where water could reach record high levels soon in some places.
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