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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Pittsburgh Engineering District said work on the Charleroi Lock and Dam, a project that began nearly 20 years ago and whose budget has stretched to $1.23 billion in ...

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 ...

Moving goods on barges is big business, but the lock system those barges rely on teeters on the brink of failure. Deckhands Jeremy Groves and Dustin Frazee descend from the towboat D.L. Johnson to ...

A leak at Thatcher Lock and Dam has drained the Ouachita River to historically low levels. But Robert Reynolds, a volunteer adviser for the Union County Water Conservation Board, as well as the ...