Winter has arrived on the uppermost part of the Mississippi River. Chilling temperatures signaled its return, but so did an important annual ritual: the last barge heading downriver from the Twin ...

The US Coast Guard is working to determine exactly what led to an oil tanker and a tug boat crashing on the Mississippi River. "The Coast Guard responded to a vessel collision that resulted in a barge ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Coast Guard responded to a vessel collision that caused a barge breakaway and one sunken barge on the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans on Sunday (April 27) night. The ...

In another sign of winter, the last Mississippi River barge departed St. Paul last weekend. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ St. Paul district, the M.V. Ashley Danielson and its barge ...

A helicopter crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri Thursday — killing at least two people. The chopper went down and exploded into flames at about 11 a.m. near ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A group of barges got off course on the Mississippi River Monday morning, with the front of one of the barges coming in contact with the levee. It happened near Skip Bertman ...

PASSAU, Germany- U.S. Soldiers from the 260th Movement Control Team, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, initiated a river deployment of critical 7th Engineer Brigade bridging and support equipment to ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on July 16, 2025. Click here for that audio. From the top of a Mississippi River barge, Adam Thomas surveys his farmland and the 40-foot earthen levee meant ...