Due to the safety hazard, the Captain of Port temprarily closed the Lower Mississippi River Waterway from mile marker 108 to 111 above Head of Passes. At 3 p.m. on Monday, the Coast Guard reported ...

The Captain of the Port temporarily closed the Lower Mississippi River Waterway from mile marker 108 to 111, above Head of Passes, due to safety hazards associated with the breakaway and the ...

The Coast Guard continues to respond to multiple barge groundings due to low water levels in the Lower Mississippi River. There are reports of barge groundings Tuesday near Stack Island, Mississippi, ...

For the third consecutive year, historically low water levels on the lower Mississippi River are impacting the supply chain. While it isn’t translating into lost export business for the U.S., it ...

The Missouri and the Ohio rivers, which both feed into the Mississippi, are running lower than normal. "Those tributaries that normally contribute water to the river didn't do that this year ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Plummeting water levels in the lower Mississippi River are projected to drop even further in the weeks ahead, a projection shows, dampening the region's economic activity and ...

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.