Despite many operational challenges, the barge industry maintained a busy year with “robust” agricultural cargo movements in 2025, according to a review by the Department of Agriculture&rs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's — unofficially — winter on the upper Mississippi River. The last dozen barges of the season departed from St. Paul, Minnesota ...

Alton Police Lt. Seth Stinnett coordinates the response on the scene with his cell phone on the grounds near the Melvin Price Locks and Dam 26 on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. The towboat Donna H. Furlong ...

Two people died when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, north of St. Louis, on Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Cpl. Dallas ...

The last Mississippi River barge of the year departed St. Paul on Tuesday, ending the 2025 Upper Mississippi shipping season. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ St. Paul district, the M.V.

A tarp covers the wreckage of a helicopter after it clipped a power line spanning the Mississippi River and crashed onto a barge Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in near Alton, Illinois. A blue tarp covers the ...

ALTON, Ill. — Two people were killed when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River in Alton, Illinois, north of St. Louis. The helicopter hit transmission lines over the Mississippi ...