If you're driving south along Wisconsin's western border, you're not just driving along the Mississippi River — you're also passing by the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is celebrating 100 years in action. 3.7 million visitors annually come to the Mississippi River corridor and refuge to ...

Have you ever seen a tundra swan or a raft of canvasback ducks floating together? Opportunities to see these birds are rare in the Midwest — unless you visit the Upper Mississippi River National ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A coalition of conservation groups filed a last-minute federal lawsuit seeking to stop plans to build the high-voltage Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line across a ...

MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. - Sabrina Chandler spent her childhood and most of her working life on the other end of the Mississippi River. Growing up on the Gulf Coast near New Orleans, she had to work to ...

A $10 million investment will fund seven projects aimed at making national wildlife refuge lands along the upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers more resilient to climate change, the U.S. Fish and ...

MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. – Sabrina Chandler spent much of her life on the other end of the Mississippi River. Growing up on the Gulf Coast near New Orleans, where levees wall the river off, she had to ...

A grain wagon supports a sign along Highway 18-151 near Ridgeway, Wis. Signs against the proposed 345-kilovolt Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line are prolific along both routes proposed by ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A coalition of conservation groups filed a last-minute federal lawsuit seeking to stop plans to build the high-voltage Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line across a ...