This Week's News: Improvements at Ted and Pat Jones Confluence Point State Park, the history of Gavins Point Dam, hundreds of volunteers expected at River Relief cleanup in Omaha, flood study seeks input, a world record paddling team paddles past Missouri, rare fish and a new learning center in Virginia, research on walleye growth rates, lack of water for Arizona farms, the USFS sued for overpopulation of horses in Arizona, contemplating the removal of hydropower dams, a deep blue spring, and kickoff of black bass season in Missouri on May 27

This Week's Highlights: A Water is Life summit in Iowa, facts about the boundary waters, rail merger increases hazmat transport along Mississippi, Clean Water Act protections for tribal waterways, men indicted for Clean Water Act violations in Puerto Rico, a Junior Ranger Day in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, fishing the Gasconade, floatable Colorado waters, a new downtown riverfront park in St. Louis, a rock bass highlight, and crews continue work on the Chariton River bridge

This Week's News: Two Missouri crayfish receive Endangered Species Act Protection, critics decry bill amendment, a first look at Eleven Point State Park, city seeks public input on Lake Springfield, landowners protect property in Arkansas, national safe boating week, current and historic flooding, a sewage spill in Bull Shoals Lake, and the largest and oldest man-made dams in Missouri

This Week's News: Mayors request help from Corps for flooding, Mississippi River flooding prompts evacuations, 4th graders hit the water in Columbia, look back at the Missouri River flood of 1952, a train derailment on the upper Mississippi, Corps seeks public help to protect artifacts, Branson receives grant to protect sewage plant from flooding, beaches open at Wappapello, work begins at Schell-Osage Conservation Area, a widening Mississippi and attempts to engineer it, and Earth Day celebrations

This Week's News: Volunteers clear thousands of trash in KC, invasive carp removal, a scenic drive to Ted Shanks Conservation Area, why engineers can't control rivers, high water closes locks and dams on the Mississippi, exploring the ecology of Arkansas's delta, why the Mississippi River basin needs more conservation funding, abundant crane flies, fishing for white bass, and a little history of canoes

This Week's News: A St. Louis Zoo raised hellbender found fathering eggs in the wild, a celebration set for the Upper Current River, Missouri's longest bridge, record fish, a high flood forecast for the Mississippi, question over Texas water pump in Oklahoma, options for Colorado River emergency plan, federal judge blocks Clean Water Rule in 24 states including Missouri, a 2nd paddling record attempt, and lighthouses on the Mississippi

This Week's News:  Creek work near Steelville causes more problems, concerns for the Mississippi, development along the Niangua, an Ozark Run Route, dried up water utility in Iowa, Arizona Tribe to receive millions for water conservation, sourcing water from the Missouri, a look at Missouri-Arkansas border lakes, restoring the Hudson, Kissimmee River restoration, dirt work underway for Chariton Bridge, Osage River casino amendment advances through House committee, MDC honors former commissioner, how Johnny Morris celebrates the outdoors, and the first European wild river national park

This Week's News:  Runaway Barges, a UN Conference on Water, Great Lakes ice report and the Great Lakes take global stage, Congress approves measure to reverse water protections, outdoor classes for women at Current River State Park, a historic bridge over Lake of the Ozarks saved, USACE boundary maintenance at Bull Shoals and Norfork lakes, good crappie fishing at Truman, and celebrating 50 years as an NPS concessioner

This Week's News:  Missouri's Supreme Court sides with state to prohibit local CAFO ordinances, feds to test for nuclear waste near Coldwater Creek, officials investigate sludge complaints in southwest MO, Representative Thomas seeks input on Osage River Casino, Maryland governor asks for fisheries disaster declaration, Arizona asks for volunteers to eradicate apple snails, native tribes save cutthroat trout, a spring outlook for flooding on the Mississippi, a National Geographic map of world water shortages, wolverine sighting near Portland, Oregon, crappie at Truman and striped bass at Bull Shoals, and getting ready for the 33rd annual Project Blue River Rescue in Kansas City

This Week's News: Jordan Creek featured in national "daylighting" article, the Navajo Nation in Supreme Court over water, partners request engagement on PCBs in the Lower Hudson, feds sued over Endangered Species Act, salmon fishing canceled in California, a public meeting on flood study in Fenton, MDC to exchange bradford pears for native trees, Mark Twain Lake volunteer opportunity, trout parks a celebration, a comparison of Missouri's winter, Chariton River bridge replacement to begin soon, and the Chicago River dyed green for St. Patrick's Day