Mar. 31—Dear Answer Man: In past winters we have always been updated on the amount of ice on Lake Pepin, but I didn't see that annual story this winter. Just wondering if the barges have been able to ...

READS LANDING, Minn. — It looks like it may be a while before the first towboats are able to make it into St. Paul to open the navigation season on the Upper Mississippi River. Initial measurements on ...

Lake Pepin ice, a bellwether of the spring shipping season, is significantly thinner than it was last year and almost three inches below the 17-year average. Surveyors for the U.S. Army Corps of ...

Brandon Olson, left, a survey technician with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Bill Chelmowski, a boat operator with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, record a measurement during a survey of Lake ...