JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A Mississippi River bridge where a shipping barge accident took place Sunday is difficult to navigate because it’s near a bend in the river at Vicksburg, bridge superintendent ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The shipping navigation season has started a bit earlier than normal as the first tow boat and barges traveled north on the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

The last tow of the 2025 Upper Mississippi River navigation season departed St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, November 25. The M/V ...

ST. PAUL -- The shipping navigation season has started a bit earlier than normal as the first tow boat and barges traveled north on the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the MV ...

A dozen barges, pushed onward by the Motor Vessel Sierra Dawn, departed from St. Paul Nov. 25.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Mississippi River is shut down to water traffic about 45 miles northwest of St. Louis, while emergency repairs are made to a river lock. By Monday, as many as 195 barges ...

The Mississippi River is low enough again to slow barge traffic between the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers for the third year in a row, though the situation may not be as bad as last year. "The ...

(Reuters) - Two separate barge accidents halted navigation on the flood-swollen Mississippi and lower Ohio rivers on Friday, severing the flow of grain from the upper Midwest to export terminals along ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard temporarily halted shipping traffic on the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Friday after a tow boat struck stationary barges in a fleeting area, marking at ...

DES MOINES, Iowa— A bridge over the flood-swollen Mississippi River remained closed Tuesday afternoon after three runaway barges slammed into the span, cutting off traffic between Dubuque and East ...

Towboats rounded up 25 barges that broke loose from a southbound tow near Cape Girardeau. The barges threatened the Mississippi River bridge but never struck it.DEC. 27, 2000 At 7:30 a.m., five coal ...