The Crescent River Port Pilots began assigning two pilots to the largest cargo ships in July, citing rising safety risks and ...

The Huey P. Long Bridge, one of America’s highest and longest steel bridges and the first bridge to cross the Mississippi ...

A cloudy, rust-colored liquid plume, roughly the size of a football field, flowed into the Mississippi River last week out of a drainage pipe from the Atlantic Alumina refinery in the River Parishes.

New Orleans-based Bisso Towboat Co., a fifth-generation family-owned business that services ocean-going vessels along the Mississippi River, has been purchased by Connecticut-based Moran Towing Corp., ...

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a woman who may have fallen into the Mississippi River early Monday morning. According to officials, a report came in around 1 a.m. about a woman in ...

Southeast Louisiana is abnormally dry. The top and bottom of the Mississippi River has had high streamflows this month, but about a quarter of gauges throughout the basin show below-normal flow.

The infrastructure along the Mississippi River has long protected the New Orleans area from catastrophic flooding. But a list of concerns are converging, particularly involving the Mississippi Gulf ...

Oklahoman Fred Newton swims down the Mississippi River near Inver Grove Heights on his way to New Orleans from the Ford Dam in this July 1930 clipping from the St. Paul Dispatch. (Pioneer Press files) ...

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American Cruise Lines is launching three new itineraries on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The new cruises include a nine-day Arkansas River cruise between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Memphis, ...