Mississippi River Cruises The Mississippi River, often referred to as the backbone of America, offers a rich tapestry of ...

Vote for the best boat tour once per day until polls close on March 13 at noon ET. The 10 winners will be announced on March ...

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Natalie Phelps Finnie on Monday wrote in a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of ...

Nowadays, a vast network of highways ties the southwest suburbs to the rest of the world. However, there was a time when the Minnesota River was the region’s lifeline. Steamboats ferried passengers up ...

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

The Hatchie-Loosahatchie Mississippi River Ecosystem Restoration project ... The scarps also provide refuge from dredging and barge traffic, making them a fitting nursery for young pallid sturgeon ...

Standing on the frozen Mississippi River, his back to a few fishers in ... is the last major barrier that prevents tows from pushing barges further upriver each season. U.S. Geological Survey ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has delayed a $1.2 billion project meant to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes by at least ...

The panel, led by Mississippi River Basin Panel administrator Elizabeth Brown, works to prevent invasive species like algae from entering the region.

OT&BE engineered both the barge and tug modifications to this unit, and is working with two shipyards, providing conceptual design services for Maritrans. River/Ocean Systems has begun design of a ...