mississippi river

If you've spent enough time near the Mississippi River, you know there are some strange things in those waters. That's proved true again as a man in Iowa just found something next to the river and no one has a clue what it is.

I've lived in Missouri and Illinois most of my life and I have never been through this town somehow. It's just been named the most quaint town in Illinois and I'm betting you've never heard of it either.

I knew something was going on when I started getting messages today about a loud plane flying low over Quincy and Hannibal today. I have confirmed it was a Navy plane flying over Missouri and Illinois today and it has a fascinating history among pilots.

I will confess that I only think about sinkholes when I see one appear and that's not frequently. There have been some that have been spotted in Missouri recently which led me on an investigation where I learned that the state is a dangerous sinkhole hotspot.

Snow is annoying and frustrating to deal with, but if you live in Missouri you should be hoping for A LOT of it this year, but why? Here are the details on why the Governor of Missouri says he hopes snow is in the forecast...

Something very venomous is in your yard.

When I think about the biggest climate disasters, coastal areas that have been devastated by hurricanes come to mind, but did you know that it's Missouri and Illinois that rank above almost all other states when it comes to catastrophic (and costly) weather events?

The good news is you won't run into this invasive plant often in Missouri, but if you do, it can really seriously burn you. It's impossible to exaggerate how painful the burns from this plant really are.

No matter what you might have seen in a movie, trains do not normally just plow through flood water. That harrowing scenario was a reality recently as a train in Illinois was spotted carefully making its way through Mississippi River flood waters that stood in its way.

The Mississippi River waters are rising and it means flooding is coming in May for many Missouri and Illinois towns according to a new prediction from the National Weather Service.