River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river levels are driving up transportation costs for Midwest farmers. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An abandoned, over 100-foot barge was removed from the Columbia River outside of the community of Rainier last month. On Dec. 3, it settled at its new temporary home on a dry dock in ...

A person is dead after falling onto a barge this Saturday afternoon in south Seattle. Emergency crews went into the afternoon working to recover their body.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A Mississippi River bridge where a shipping barge accident took place Sunday is difficult to navigate because it’s near a bend in the river at Vicksburg, bridge superintendent ...

Shipping season on the upper Mississippi River has ended as the last barges headed south from St. Paul, Minnesota Nov. 25.

Nearly a week after a barge capsized in the Hudson River near the city of Hudson, officials say the vessel still hasn’t been removed — but they now know what caused it to flip. A U.S. Coast Guard ...

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 ...

Ports of Indiana-Jeffersonville terminal increases steel and other barge capacity by 40%. The post Indiana port expands barge ...

A woman was arrested after San Antonio police say she pepper-sprayed several people on a River Walk boat earlier this month.

A helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a powerline Thursday, then crashed into a barge and sparked a fire, killing two people, officials said.The two dead were flying in the ...

Two people working on powerlines near the Mississippi River died Thursday when their helicopter hit the lines, crashed into a barge and sparked a fire that belched plumes of black smoke, officials ...