Low Water Disrupts Industry Along Lower Mississippi River October 17, 2022 By Michael Goldberg JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Plummeting water levels in the lower Mississippi River are projected to drop even further in the...
Mississippi River Traffic Resumes Under Damaged Bridge May 17, 2021 By Adrian Sainz and Andrew Demillo MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — River traffic has reopened on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, three days after it was...
‘Nothing But Problems’: Shipwreck Tear-Down Enters 5th Month March 15, 2021 By Russ Bynum SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — When salvage crews began cutting apart the capsized Golden Ray, a shipwreck the size of a...
Barges Hit Mississippi Bridge, Some Drift Into 2nd Bridge April 29, 2020 VICKSBURG, Miss. — Barges hit a 90-year-old railroad bridge over the Mississippi River, and some broke away and drifted back...
U.S. Farmers and Shippers Face Huge Losses From Flooding Again March 2, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan For the second year in a row, much of the U.S. is primed to suffer multi-billion dollar flood losses, with...
Hundreds of Barges Stalled as Floods Hinder Midwest Supplies June 10, 2019 Hundreds of barges are stalled on the Mississippi River, clogging the main circulatory system for a farm-belt economy battered by...