River cruises often elicit a lackluster response—conjuring images of slow-moving vessels brimming with family reunion ...

A pitch for river ships to call in Yonkers, a city on the Hudson River just north of Manhattan: Museums, music, kayaking, ...

Mississippi Water Trail Association organizes the Great Rivers Rendezvous recreational paddle on the Mississippi River.

If you'd like to take a cruise but aren't interested in the hustle and bustle of a massive ocean liner, consider a river cruise. River cruises offer the chance to visit lesser-known ports around ...

Welcomed by water birds by day and meteors by night, nothing compares to a houseboat cruise on the Mississippi. Read about ...

La Crosse Queen Cruises run up and down the Mississippi River, and when the boat is not out on the water, it can be found ...

The area south of St. Louis has been hit especially hard, mirroring low-water concerns that began around this same time of ...

On the Mississippi itineraries sail both the lower and upper sections of the river ... Boats. There are several restaurants, a library, an indoor pool, a science lab and an auditorium for daily ...

(Bloomberg) -- Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil shipments of everything from corn to gasoline. Dry conditions ...

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a gator boat was traveling south on the Gasconade River, upstream from Pointers Creek, at about 7 p.m. Sunday when the boat struck a tree root ...

Boat cruising is a big part of the New Zealand experience ... You can hire a punt for an hour on an urban river, or spend days discovering untouched coast on a sailing vessel, houseboat or motor yacht ...