The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released its 2024 navigational statistics for the St. Paul district, which paints a picture of how much boat traffic the Upper Mississippi River saw in 2024, and ...

Falling an estimated 5 feet overnight, the icy Mississippi River left these barges, two of five, high and dry at the Marquette Cement plant marine docks Feb. 8, 1951. The stream made the quick ...

4, this year’s package includes studies on increased flooding in the upper basin, flood mitigation measures throughout the ...

Each barge had to wait its turn to pass through the two narrow locks, creating traffic jams ... 1958 opening of the Greater New Orleans Mississippi River Bridge. The detachment meant that, from ...

Poland's PGE and Denmark's Orsted have taken the final decision to build Baltica 2, a 1.5-gigawatt offshore wind farm on Poland's Northwestern coast, the companies said on Wednesday.Both companies ...

Louis, the river is replete with enormous river barges transporting commodities of all kinds. Minnesota is the Birthplace of the Mississippi River. The city of Bemidji is the first city on the river.

Not everyone supports the cost share change, however, including American Rivers, which has opposed the creation of new locks on the upper Mississippi in favor of helping the river revert to more ...

Once considered an endangered species, there are now more than 3,100 bald eagles wintering in at least 27 Illinois counties.

resident Jerry Boardman are planted near McGregor Lake, a river backwater ... by roughly 6% between 1989 and 2010, according to a 2022 report on ecological trends on the upper Mississippi.

There are few places better suited to bald eagle watching than here in the Metro East.