PROVIDENCE – With all the rain falling on Rhode Island in recent months, it's hard to imagine that a controversy over the state’s water supply was, for decades, front-page news. The state went so far ...

Big River Crossing is a great way to get outside and take in the mightiness of the Mississippi River. Enjoy panoramic views of the Memphis skyline as you walk, run, or bike across the nearly mile-long ...

WEST GREENWICH – Frank J. Lemaire proved prophetic in death, dying in 2007 in the family farmhouse he swore he’d never leave after the state took ownership of it – and his 400-plus acres of land – ...

Big River Steel in Osceola plans to increase its capacity for moving material on the Mississippi River, according to a project application submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Memphis ...

The river that one white explorer named after his own ship in 1792 — the Columbia — has been called many things in many languages, but perhaps the simplest, broadest name is also the truest: Big River ...

Editor’s note: The following is an edited excerpt from the introduction to the new book “Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin,” by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes and David Moskowitz (June ...