Bridges that span the Mississippi River in western Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota are sturdy enough to withstand a barge collision, according to an engineer from the Wisconsin Department of ...

In recent years one aspect of the data has revealed an undeniable trend: The Mississippi River is getting saltier. In 1982, when chloride tests were first performed at the dam, the average ...

Officially, it is the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, an 80-foot-wide waterway built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to connect the Mississippi River near Milan ... the first boat to pass ...

The helicopter wreckage was also found. Images from the river showed boats around the partly submerged wing and the mangled wreckage of the plane’s fuselage. The collision was the deadliest U.S ...