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, ...

The Montgomery Locks and Dam is a key piece of the waterway system in the Pittsburgh region, which carries about 20 million ...

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 ...

The Pittsburgh District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last week awarded a $12.9 million contract to install new lift gates and a control system at the Montgomery Locks and Dam in Industry.

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 ...

Some 6 million tons of commodities passed through the lock and dam along the Mississippi River in Hastings in 2023, and with navigation season at a pause, crews this winter have undertaken the ...

In her letter to the editor (Locks will only help greedy corporations) Lorraine Redig presents a very narrow perspective on agriculture and the economy in general. While arguing that the locks on the ...

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 ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved $110 million for the Kentucky Lock and Dam project in its annual budget, per the request of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, his office said.

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 ...