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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of 4 p.m. the water has gone down slightly at 6.84 inches below the top. At the Cheboygan dam, the Michigan DNR and other crews ...

After this week’s frigid temperatures, ice has been building up on the Ohio River. No matter the weather, at the McAlpine Locks and Dam, ice left unchecked can wreak havoc on the lock and dam system, ...

Locks and dams need more than $100 million in critical, overdue maintenance to keep cargo moving on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, officials at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa say.

Work is underway to build a new island in the Mississippi River near Hastings, a $10 million project aimed at preserving the lock-and-dam system that allows some 10 million tons of goods to be shipped ...

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 ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email Half a century after the final navigation lock opened the Snake River to Lewiston, Idaho, the Lower Granite Lock ...

WEEKEND COMING UP. AND THAT SEVEN-DAY FORECAST. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, ERIC, FOR THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS, WE HAVE ALL BEEN DEALING WITH COLD AND ICY CONDITIONS. FOR MOST OF US, DEALING WITH IT IS AN ...