Multiple Mississippi agencies worked together to rescue three men from a fishing lake in Coahoma Co. early Friday morning.

The last Mississippi River barge of the year departed St. Paul on Tuesday, ending the 2025 Upper Mississippi shipping season. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ St. Paul district, the M.V.

Shipping season on the upper Mississippi River has ended as the last barges headed south from St. Paul, Minnesota Nov. 25.

The journey featured Bettis and her seven youngest children: twins Graham and Gatlin (who turned 15 on the river), Gates (13) ...

Pittsburgh is a city of firsts: movie theaters, AC electricity, radio broadcasts, gas stations, the polio vaccine and ... showboats?

Susan Olson, of Action Intel, analyzes barge movement and logistics and says the past few weeks show a divergence in how ...

ST. LOUIS — Six barges broke loose on the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, and one struck the Eads Bridge connecting Missouri and Illinois. The U.S. Coast Guard said in a release that the ...

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time for ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Waterways Operators – the trade association of the U.S. tugboat, towboat and barge industry – and the National Safe Boating Council have ...

Last week, American Cruise Lines announced it is adding 10 new cruise ships to the U.S. market through 2028, including additional itineraries on the Mississippi River. This year American Cruise Lines ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — While the upper Mississippi River’s lock and dam system is keeping navigation efficient, low river levels on the lower Mississippi for the fourth consecutive year are threatening U ...