ST. PAUL, Minn. - The St. Paul District is investing more than $18 million in tow rail systems, vital pieces of equipment which assist tows locking through locks and dams when traveling upriver. Locks ...

Get on a boat on the upper Mississippi River, and you'll eventually come upon a looming concrete structure stretching across the river's main channel. It's called a lock and dam, and it's a distinct ...

Congress and the administrations that occupied the White House for most of the post-World War II era have a seemingly unbreakable habit of kicking what has become a rusty can down the road. The latest ...

BELLEVUE, Iowa — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) said she wanted to make updating an aging Mississippi River lock and dam system a long-term priority. The Iowa representative toured Lock and Dam 12, ...

The Lower Monumental Dam will be closed part of the day for repairs. The Columbia-Snake River System is a keystone of the Pacific Northwest agricultural economy, an advocate for river users says. An ...

CHEBOYGAN — The locks and dam system on the Cheboygan River, just north of Lincoln Avenue, will receive a full upgrade in the near future by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Michigan ...

No matter the weather, at the McAlpine Locks and Dam, ice left unchecked can wreak havoc on the system.

How the locks-and-dams system came to be on the Upper Mississippi River: • When the first European explorers came to the Upper Mississippi Valley maybe 350 years ago, the river had a braided channel ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District began refilling the newly constructed lock chamber with water at the Monongahela River Locks and Dam 4 in Charleroi last week. The chamber was ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — With bipartisan support for a proposed $1.2 trillion investment in America’s aging infrastructure, members of Iowa’s congressional delegation are optimistic upgrades to the Mississippi ...

A damaged lower guide wheel on the John Day Dam’s upstream navigation lock gate has slowed barge traffic on the Columbia River, but shippers and others say a delay is better than a closure during this ...