Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is ...

Signed into law Jan. 4, this year’s package includes studies on increased flooding in the upper basin, flood mitigation ...

The data that Burdis and Jankowski are looking at is much newer, dating back about 30 years, but it shows a similar trend.

Surging water from the Mississippi River led to a 2023 barge strike on a gate at Algiers Lock in New Orleans, the National ...

Navigation statistics fluctuate from year to year, depending on the weather, river flows, and the length of the navigation season. The St. Paul District maintains a nine-foot navigation channel from ...

The NTSB found the surge was likely due to wake effects from deep draft ships transiting the Mississippi River adjacent to ...

In 1979, Carter returned to the Quad-Cities as president, taking a riverboat called the Delta Queen along the Mississippi River ... jogging in the fog near Lock and Dam 14, speaking with 13 ...

The Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Southern Oklahoma is a vast space of nearly 60,000 acres filled with grass prairie land, lakes, streams, and granite mountains. It's also home to a ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' St. Louis District has planned two public hearings to discuss revisions to the Melvin Price Locks and Dam water control manual. Hearings will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday at ...

Surging water from the Mississippi River led to a 2023 barge strike on a gate at Algiers Lock in New Orleans, according to a ...

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time ...