Despite constant and intense rain late last week and into the weekend, river levels in the area are decreasing.  According to the National Weather Service, the Mississippi River at Grafton, Illinois ...

Heavy snow melt forced the closure of several locks on the upper Mississippi River...but high water levels and flooding are starting to ease which is allowing locks to reopen and barge traffic to ...

Recent heavy rain is impacting transportation on the Ohio River system. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says flooding was ...

The unofficial start of the Mississippi River navigation season has begun. The Motor Vessel Neil N. Diehl went through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings on Wednesday, with nine barges. Reaching Hasting ...

Simple, obvious, eternal. That is one of the reasons anglers by the hundreds, and sometimes thousands, in spring head up the Mississippi River toward locks and dams, especially the Red Wing Dam.

Diehl locked through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings ... navigation season because it’s the last port on the Upper Mississippi River to open every year. The delay is a result of ice in Lake Pepin ...

As waters recede along small streams and secondary rivers, flooding is just getting underway along the largest rivers and ...

Some words may be mispronounced. A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River basin with a federally funded commission. “This is a bill ...

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday the local shipping season on the Mississippi River has begun. The first towboat, with nine barges, passed through Lock and Dam 2 in Hastings on ...