The George S. Walker train ferry transports a train across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to the Anchorage railroad ...

A Senate bill would prohibit wakesurfing and using boats with ballasts designed to create wakes in the six-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from the Highway 169 bridge to the Coon Rapids Dam.

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time ...

A similar story played out decades ago in Chattanooga and Nashville, and Memphis added a pedestrian walkway along an old bridge across the Mississippi River in 2016. What has been the result in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Several people are in custody accused of conspiring to kill a man found tied up and tossed out on the Old Mississippi River Bridge. Gerard Nicholas Richard, 41 ...

In March, the Mississippi River carries remnants of winter downstream, setting the stage for a striking seasonal transition ...

Here's the story of how the City of Memphis came up with a monorail system that ran, at least in spurts, for 37 years.

A new poll finds that most U.S. adults who say severe cold was among the types of extreme weather they experienced in recent ...

As work continues in Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park on projects started last year to replace a pedestrian bridge and ...