How the Detroit River shaped lives and history
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As the glaciers retreated some 10,000 years ago, a massive piece of limestone and dolomite bedrock, more than 345 million years old, survived the onslaught, sloping northward from Grosse Ile.
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By Michael Dinan, The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Jun. 26--GREENWICH -- Michael Aurelia raised a dripping net of a baby alewives from a pool of the Mianus River Dam's fishway, examined them, then dumped the silver fish back into the water and pulled out a partially submerged crate.
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By the numbers: a snapshot of development's impact on water usage in the basin.
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Travel: Rosemary Mahoney describes the freedom and fears she encountered on her great river adventure
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ON THE RIO GRANDE, Texas  - The riot of green vegetation that lines both sides of the Rio Grande river along the southeast Texas and Mexican border can give a canoeist the impression of gliding past unbroken wilderness.
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By Gregory Richards, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 8--NORFOLK -- It's 185 feet long and weighs about 700 tons.   Yet the vessel, named the Flint River, was high over the Elizabeth  River's brown waters Wednesday morning.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 24--Reservoir construction, pipelines and water imports in the Arkansas Valley have changed flows in ways not yet fully understood.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Mar. 11--The Middle River-Snake River Watershed District has agreed to repair damage it allegedly caused to the Snake River during construction of a flood control project, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
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By Ken Byron, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 5--The Pequabuck River is a waterway that is slowly coming back from the dead.   Fouled by factory waste and poorly treated effluent from municipal sewage plants, the river became one of the most polluted in the state.
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By Mike Lafferty  COLUMBUS  --  The George Dunbar left Cleveland at 6 p.m. on June 29, 1902, bound for Alpena, Mich.  Loaded with coal, the 136-foot ship rode low in the water as it steamed northwest into rough Lake Erie weather, her boilers running full steam.
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When newspaper editor Lou Ureneck took his teenage son Adam on a 110-mile river journey through the Alaskan wilderness in August 2000, he had more in mind than observing wildlife and catching salmon and Arctic char.
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There were three swift boats on the river that day in Vietnam more than 35 years ago - three officers and 15 crew members. Only two of those officers remain to talk about what happened on February 28, 1969.
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By Yomi S. Wronge, MEDIA NEWS  The state's second-longest river will be brought back to life after 60 years of being drained dry for Central Valley agriculture, under a settlement filed Wednesday in federal court.
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This place could be Flint, Mich., back in the 1970s, before hard times at General Motors sent the once-prosperous manufacturing city over the cliff.
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Description: Next week, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will be dedicated in Cincinnati on the banks of the Ohio River. Reporter Naomi Lewin visits the museum.
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By Eric Sharp, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 18--Thirty years ago Free Press photographer Craig Porter and I did some stories about the mess that the oil and gas industry had created in northern Michigan. One day we tailed a brine truck as it left a drilling site.
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By GERALD WITT  REIDSVILLE -- Along the 1.5-mile stroll, you can hear water trickle down a dam and visit the 8-foot "Little Niagara" waterfall.