The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

Towboat carves icy channel on the Mississippi River at Alton in 1948 ...

Successful demolition of the nearly century-old Lansing Bridge also provided researchers from Purdue University useful performance data on structural redundance of fracture-critical members.

The city sits in what locals affectionately call the “Driftless Area,” a picturesque region untouched by ancient glaciers, resulting in a dramatic landscape of steep bluffs, deep valleys, and the ...

A nearly 100-year-old bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin was imploded Friday, an unusual spectacle that clears the way for a modern replacement. The Mississippi River Bridge, ...

Today, Sunday, December 14, is the 285th new column I’ve written for the NKyTribune. On Sunday, December 10, 2017, my first story began, appropriately enough, with “Where do I start?” Since then, a ...

A pilothouse simulator at the River Discovery Center puts you in charge of a powerboat, a US Coast Guard vessel or a towboat with a string of barges. Image by Tom Adkinson PADUCAH, Ky. – Even though ...

Shipping season on the upper Mississippi River has ended as the last barges headed south from St. Paul, Minnesota Nov. 25. Because the upper river freezes each year, barge traffic always halts until ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Mississippi River Bridge is back open after a lengthy closure due to a man climbing the bridge’s superstructure. The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office ...

Water levels on portions of the Mississippi and lower Ohio rivers have dropped low enough to significantly hinder shipping across the inland waterway system. This marks the third year in four that ...

Farmers rely on the Mississippi River to ship grain and bring them imported fertilizer and other critical inputs. But another year of low river levels means barge travel will be more expensive. The ...