River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...

On Wednesday, mayors from the Midwestern Corn Belt joined mayors from Louisiana to sign the Mississippi River Ports ...

A freight ship heads south on the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana in June, 2024. Aerial support provided by ...

Climatologists say it could be part of a larger trend. For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest ...

With a $20M investment, the Jefferson County Port Authority will create the county's first publicly-owned terminal facility.

Experts with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District say for the third consecutive year, the Mississippi River is ...

(Bloomberg) -- Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil shipments of everything from corn to gasoline. Dry conditions ...

The Upper Mississippi River area, which comprises parts of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin, generated $253 billion and supported more than 700,000 jobs. The Lower Mississippi ...

They continued their voyage and traveled by Leavenworth and under the Centennial Bridge on Saturday. The group will continue their journey down the Missouri River and end in Cairo, Illinois. Photo ...

Next Monday is Labor Day and the South Dakota Missouri River Tourism offices will be closed in observance of the holiday The bite has definitely slowed considerably. Catching fish still, but working ...

Court Tosses Missouri Law That Barred Police From Enforcing Federal Gun Laws COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Federal appellate judges overturned a Missouri law Monday that banned police from enforcing some ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Planned Parenthoods filed legal challenges Monday against a new law that kicked the organizations off the federal Medicaid health insurance program. Planned ...