Winter has arrived on the uppermost part of the Mississippi River. Chilling temperatures signaled its return, but so did an important annual ritual: the last barge heading downriver from the Twin ...

The US Coast Guard is working to determine exactly what led to an oil tanker and a tug boat crashing on the Mississippi River. "The Coast Guard responded to a vessel collision that resulted in a barge ...

In another sign of winter, the last Mississippi River barge departed St. Paul last weekend. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ St. Paul district, the M.V. Ashley Danielson and its barge ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Coast Guard responded to a vessel collision that caused a barge breakaway and one sunken barge on the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans on Sunday (April 27) night. The ...

River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river levels are driving up transportation costs for Midwest farmers. The ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Smoke engulfed a barge on the Mobile River late Wednesday morning catching the attention of several bystanders. “We sent somebody to the top of the Cochrane-Africatown bridge ...

PASSAU, Germany- U.S. Soldiers from the 260th Movement Control Team, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, initiated a river deployment of critical 7th Engineer Brigade bridging and support equipment to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A group of barges got off course on the Mississippi River Monday morning, with the front of one of the barges coming in contact with the levee. It happened near Skip Bertman ...

It was super-cute when the captain gave the waving crowd a toot. Video: Travis Meier/Axios Berkley Riverfront is my jam, and with all the time I spend down along the Missouri River, I know how rare it ...