The 2025 River Bell Awards in Paducah, Ky., Dec. 11 honored two towboat crews for heroic 2023 and 2024 rescues on the Lower ...

A missing retaining ring and mounting bracket on the port main diesel engine led to an engine-room fire on a towing vessel near Belleview, Ky., the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ...

The oldest towboat still plying the waters of the Ohio-Mississippi River system got a new lease on life this week when it was bought by a Wood County river transportation company. On Monday, the ...

On Tuesday evening, Gov. Jeff Landry will join the American Commercial Barge Line and C&C Marine to welcome the M/V ACBL Mariner, dubbed "the most powerful and capable towboat ever built for ...

INOLA — It is a big couple of days for one of the largest inland ports in the nation. On Sunday, members of the Mississippi River Commission will visit the Port of Catoosa, where they will board a ...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- The search for a missing towboat captain stopped Wednesday afternoon with little hope of finding him after his boat sank in the Mississippi River. Without finding any sign of 36 ...

Towboats from the Cape Girardeau fleet of the Missouri Barge Line shot into the swiftly moving ice of the Mississippi River on two occasions Wednesday to rescue a total of seven runaway barges. Only a ...

Come and join Kathy Flippo, author of several books including 'Between the Saints: Louis and Paul,' as she shares her stories about the mighty Mississippi. She has accrued many adventures from ...

At that point, he wasn’t thinking about a lifelong career. He wasn’t, he says, thinking about his future much at all. He was thinking about a conversation he had with a friend who worked on a boat for ...

The Great River Road flanking each side of the river provides a transportation corridor connecting the Minnesota cities of Wabasha, Kellogg, Winona and La Crescent with the Wisconsin river towns of ...

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 for ...