On Tuesday evening, Gov. Jeff Landry will join the American Commercial Barge Line and C&C Marine to welcome the M/V ACBL Mariner, dubbed "the most powerful and capable towboat ever built for ...

WISCONSIN (CBS 58) -- In Western Wisconsin, a towboat with two barges were no match for the strong currents on the Mississippi River overnight. The Army Corps of Engineers says around 11:00 p.m. last ...

An Iowa towboat is headed upstream from Dubuque and it appears there will be an early start to the navigation season on the Upper Mississippi River. Al VanGuilder with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

INOLA — It is a big couple of days for one of the largest inland ports in the nation. On Sunday, members of the Mississippi River Commission will visit the Port of Catoosa, where they will board a ...

CORDOVA, Ill. (AP) -- Barge traffic on the upper Mississippi River was slowed Monday as the U.S. Coast Guard removed fuel from a sunken towboat and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continued work to ...

NEW ORLEANS — A towboat was so erratic it appeared its operator "had had a stroke" as it pushed a barge into the path of a tanker before a collision that shut a major shipping waterway over the summer ...

ST. LOUIS • A towboat was leaking diesel fuel into the Mississippi River on Thursday after sinking the night before, but salvage crews hoped to raise the vessel today. Trinity Park Apartments in ...

CHESTER, Ill. -- The Coast Guard said Thursday it was investigating what caused a towboat carrying 3,500 gallons of diesel fuel to sink in the Mississippi River near the southern Illinois city of ...

A dark, jagged vein of open water slices through the endless white of a frozen Mississippi River in this 1948 aerial shot. As sub-zero temperatures threatened to stop the flow of post-war commerce, ...