The river is waiting
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The white tents are up along the banks of the Charles River, and cars towing rowing shells are making their way along Storrow and Memorial drives. Just as the moving vans around Labor Day are a sure sign students are back in town, the influx of boats in late October is a sign that the Head of the Charles Regatta ...
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 19--The Red River reached 35.55 feet at Grand Forks-East Grand Forks at 7:45 a.m. today, according to the National Weather Service.
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Arts & entertainment: Kipling called it 'a river of life'. Chris Arnot on a unique attempt to capture the spirit of the 1,500 mile-long Grand Trunk Road.
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By Pete Zimowsky, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Mar. 1--Antsy rivers runners who are waiting to hear whether they got a permit for one of Idaho's wild rivers this summer can relax a little.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 18--The New River in northwestern North Carolina, designated since 1976 as part of the National Wild and Scenic River System, is a conservation success story. Federal protection has kept the river free-flowing, unhampered by ill-considered dams.
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By Fred LeBrun, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 8--For now, the molecular density of the Hudson River above the Patroon Island Bridge is not conducive to drifting a live herring through 18 feet of water in search of a striped bass longer than your arm.   But that will change.
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LUANG PRABANG, Laos  - Like everything else in the  Lao river town of Luang Prabang, the turbid Mekong appears at  ease as it meanders by.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 24--South Carolina's legal salvo over the Catawba River, fired at its northern neighbor this month, was the latest sign of strain in a Southeast that has always seemed awash in water.
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Rescue teams join a search for a person believed to have fallen into a river near the Royal Welsh showground.
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By Juliann Vachon  Counties in the tri-state are looking for volunteers willing to get their hands dirty combing the shorelines of the Ohio River for trash and debris in the 2007 River Sweep on June 16.
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By Shelley Byrne, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Sep. 25--The rain is over, but the trouble is just beginning for some of those who live near creeks and rivers.
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Only over the past year has the public begun to see physical progress on the Roanoke River flood reduction project, a fact that might frustrate  people who have wanted to see better flood control a lot sooner.
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A river runs through it and Brad Pitt wants to do everything he can   to shore it up for future generations.
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By Bill Michelmore  The Niagara River is a lifeline running through the heart and soul of the Indian people.  Fishing, though seriously diminished, has been a source of food for centuries. The river has a powerful spiritual significance, too.
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By Yangkyoung Lee, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 20--If the Red River in Grand Forks-East Grand Forks crests at 41 feet this weekend, as expected, it will set a record for June floods.   The current record is 40.11 feet, set in June 2005. The record before that was set in 2000.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 20--TWIN VALLEY, Minn. -- They gathered at the river Tuesday morning, serenaded by tribal drummers and swiftly flowing water and showered by bright sun.
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It looks like a clump of soiled sheep's wool, a cottony green or white mass that's turning up on rocks and river bottoms, snarling waterways.