Wednesday's announced work plan represents the single largest investment to Mississippi River locks and dams since their original construction in the 1930s, according to Waterways Council Inc. The ...

A bipartisan group of Iowa and Illinois lawmakers this week called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize funding included in the recently passed federal infrastructure bill to finally ...

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McHENRY Il. — Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Colleen Callahan, joined by state, federal and local leaders, will celebrate the completion of a $22 million improvement project at the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALTON, Ill. – The Melvin Price Locks and Dam ...

Twin 1,200-foot locks were finished, built with cofferdams. Without a completed dam, they were useless. So corps officials offered the lure of a different type of a contract: a “cost-plus” arrangement ...

HASTINGS, Minnesota - The locks and dams on the Mississippi River are massive feats of engineering, nearing 100 years old. They shepherd millions of tons of goods each year, acting as water-based ...

WASHINGTON -- Midwest lawmakers convinced the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday to reject an effort to slow the planned $3.4 billion expansion of seven aging locks and dams on the upper ...

KEOKUK, Iowa — Since the 1970s, the Mississippi River basin has seen the spread of several invasive fish species, collectively referred to as Asian carp. These fish have worked their way throughout ...

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 ...

The tug Theresa L. Wood heads upstream after locking through Lock and Dam #8 in May in Genoa, Wis. The vessel was moving barges from St. Louis to Winona, Minn. The locks allow the boats to gradually ...