It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

Each day this week, the Des Moines Register will be presenting one of the daily maps for RAGBRAI 2025. Here's today's.

and it continues to give life to the cities that sprang up along its route. After Union forces captured Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln saw the emancipated river as a ...