Started in 2020, and scheduled for completion by 2022, the Mississippi River Ship Channel Dredging Project will cost roughly $270 million, and is expected to return $7.20 for every $1 spent ...

Asian carp have been spotted at the mouth of the Root River in Minnesota, raising concerns about the invasive species' impact ...

A group of Mississippi River shipping industry figures were treated to a tour of the Columbia-Snake river grain export system ...

Invasive carp previously fitted with acoustic tags have led the Minnesota DNR and its state and federal partners to a school of invasive carp in Pool 8 of the Mississippi River at the confluence of ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. — Response crews have contained the source of oil and natural gas spilling from an unused well near the mouth of the Mississippi River. "We were able to successfully cut ...

One of the Quapaw Canoe Company’s popular trips is an excursion to a chain of river islands between Mississippi and Arkansas that formed around the 1829 wreck of the steamboat Montezuma.

Two recent stories, one on Neptune Pass in the lower Mississippi River and the other on the testing of the Bonnet Carre Spillway by the Corps of Engineers, are related ...

Ship traffic along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, with the state capitol building in the distance, on Tuesday, July 9, 2024.