The Mississippi River crested in New Orleans this week, capping an anxious period for the engineers and residents who live ...

Call it the 19th century version of a Brawl for All. As the sun sets American Queen a Mississippi River Paddle Wheeler, heads ...

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 ...

A New Orleans family is trying every avenue to track down a dock worker who went missing on the river more than one week ago. We're told 42-year-old Darius Clement was last seen at work on a barge.

Mississippi’s productive oyster beds were decimated, as was the brown shrimp population. Dolphins and sea turtles died in record numbers. Algae blooms from the fertilizer-laden river water closed the ...

CRITTENDEN COUNTY, Ark. — Due to excessive rainfall, closures on the Interstate 55 Bridge over the Mississippi River in West Memphis have been extended for routine bridge maintenance. Southbound ...

CLINTON, Iowa — The U.S. 30 bridge that crosses over the Mississippi River from Clinton, Iowa, into southern Fulton, Illinois, will be closed due to maintenance. According to the Iowa Department ...

NEW ORLEANS — High river levels caused six barges to break loose, one barge to sink, and halted river traffic near New Orleans Sunday night, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. There were no ...

ALTON — Mississippi River traffic is returning ... The Army Corps of Engineers planned the closure for when river traffic was slowest and has picked up in volume with the spring.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The United States Coast Guard is investigating a vessel collision on the Lower Mississippi River that sunk a barge. According to guardsmen, around 9:20 p.m. on Sunday ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts a test opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway near LaPlace on Monday, April 21, 2025. The Mississippi River reached its highest level of the spring season ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Mississippi River is cresting earlier and lower than previously forecasted, reducing pressure on flood control infrastructure and eliminating, for now, the need to open ...