After taking a beating for years from towboats pushing cargo up and down the Mississippi River, the upper miter gates in the Lock and Dam 15 main lock near the Arsenal Island are getting some time off ...

ROCK ISLAND -- Mississippi River traffic was slowly unsnarling Wednesday, after the main lock of Lock and Dam 15 re-opened after nearly a week of repairs. Of 254 vessels currently on the river between ...

The Rock Island Arsenal Fire Department was called to a river rescue Thursday evening after a boat with two men aboard ran out of gas and ended up against the roller dam at Lock and Dam 15, Rock ...

When it opened in the 1934, Lock and Dam 15 tamed the Rock Island rapids, the narrowest, most treacherous stretch of the upper Mississippi River. Part of the upper Mississippi's 9-foot navigation ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will use $732 million in federal infrastructure funding to modernize a lock and dam on the Upper Mississippi River crucial for shipping grain and soybeans to export ...

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has given the inland waterways a barely passing grade for providing a reliable ...

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon to retire in January; US operations chief John Furner takes over Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, who turned the nation's largest retailer into a tech-powered giant since taking ...