This Week's Highlights:  Congress approves lower Mississippi River restoration, recruiting students for adventure, safeguards for America's fishiest forest, Lake Powell's decline, forever chemicals found, Missouri fishing guide, push for gaming at Lake of the Ozarks, resort prospects at Mark Twain Lake, the largest man-made lake in Missouri, nature at its finest, and jellyfish in Missouri

This Week's News:  DNR offers funds to improve water quality, February fishing programs, road salt effects, risks from ice jams, growers brace to give up water, discussions on pipeline from the Mississippi to Utah, while dredging the Mississippi makes transport possible, and a dredging vessel oil spill at New Orleans

This Week's Highlights: Managing river restoration and coastal erosion, Kansas restores Plains Minnow, advocates try to ban toxic sealants, invasive black carp thriving, a deluge of atmospheric rivers in California, habitat meeting for Mark Twain Lake, the Army helps with eagle survey, the power of restored prairies, and wildlife sightings of interest in Missouri

This Week's Highlights: Eagle Days at Lake of the Ozarks, protection for eagles at Bagnell Dam, trout fishing warming up, mapping the world's river basins, ancient courses of the Mississippi River map, floating wetlands clean up urban waters, capturing stormwater in California, extreme rain from the atmospheric river, Congress passes regulations for duck boats, and ice jam breaks up on Missouri River

This Week's News: Search underway for missing Missouri River paddler, ice jams exacerbate low water issues in Atchison, Kansas oil spill update, 12 beautiful lakes in Missouri, some capital city history, an atmospheric river, making a difference for the Great Salt Lake, and the country's busiest national forest

This Week's Highlights: Mark Van Patten to be inducted into the Fishing Hall of Fame, why the Kansas Keystone spill isn't an ordinary spill, MDC tackles invasives, lake drawdown to begin soon at Lake of the Ozarks, water conservation and cloud seeding research in the west, low water levels reveal ice age fossils, the magic of an Ozark stream in winter, and a clinic for people interested in the MR340

This Week's Highlights: Successful shoreline cleanups, Ozark trail expansion, considering levee changes, microplastics where humans live, sounding the alarm about sewer fungus, groups partner to save mussels, a doomsday scenario for the Colorado River, tribes moving due to climate, the wild horses of Shannon County, and why weedkiller is showing up in Midwesterners' urine

This Week's Highlights: U.S. advances largest dam demolition in ​world history, Dept. of Interior initiates action for the Colorado River basin, tribe testifies about water crisis, a $40 Million initiative for trout watersheds, record setting sandhill cranes, Missouri River navigation season to end early, cargo moving woes on the Mississippi, Big Spring in the Missouri Ozarks, celebrating the Eleven Point decision, rivers of inspiration art, algae toxins in bull sharks, another dam removal for stream recovery, and how to get involved with a riverfront cleanup in Cape Girardeau

This Week's Highlights:  The Supreme Court secures Eleven Point State Park, low river and lake levels, efforts to keep barges rolling, charting a course to preserve water, a turtle study from an Ozark stream, public health advisories for Kansas lakes, and how a little mussel could help save a marsh

This Week's Highlights: Low water levels across the U.S., a new reservoir underway in north central Missouri, the EPA sued for neglecting Clean Water Act responsibilities, millions to be invested for tidal energy and river current systems, sturgeon research on the Missouri, an annual meeting at Mark Twain Lake, the history of some big Missouri dams, Bennett Spring cleanup, accessing Tower Rock, and a Rock Island Trail lawsuit