BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 13-year-old girl was killed when a tractor-trailer plowed into vehicles on a Louisiana bridge, triggering a pileup involving more than a dozen cars.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state tourism office says three scenic Louisiana automobile routes have received special designations from the Federal Highway Administration.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Aiming to increase the numbers of oysters spawning in public waters, Louisiana is taking steps to forbid harvesting on four artificial reefs.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The first case in the state of a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus has been recorded in northeast Missouri, state health officials said Saturday.

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — People who can do their jobs remotely could receive $6,000 to move to a region overlooking the Mississippi River, under a program designed to attract workers as the...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis is investigating the death of a St. Louis man whose body was found across the Mississippi River in Illinois’ rural St. Clair County....

DESTREHAN, La. (AP) — Louisiana State Police and the U.S. Coast Guard are investigating a hit-and-run crash on the Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge early Thursday.

GRAND TOWER, Ill. (AP) — Dry weather last summer allowed work to resume to finally finish repairs to a Mississippi River levee damaged in 2013 in southwestern Illinois when a drainage pipe failed,...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards has officially called a March 20 special election for Louisiana voters to select two new members of the U.S. House, with an April 24 runoff if needed....

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Two companies that offer Mississippi River cruises can start making improvements to the waterfront in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — An Ohio woman has been charged with murder in the death of an infant whose body was found in a trash bag floating along the shores of Mississippi River nearly 30 years...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say they’re continuing to search for two missing hunters, two weeks after their boat was found capsized in the Mississippi River.

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A proposed casino site on the Mississippi Gulf Coast does not meet state standards for where casinos are allowed to locate, the state Supreme Court ruled.

CONVENT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana parish canceled their annual Christmas Eve bonfire celebration due to an increase in coronavirus cases, officials said.

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff says crews have continued searching for two duck hunters who went missing on the Mississippi River.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Aquariums in Chicago, Connecticut and Iowa are helping the Tennessee Aquarium save an endangered minnow.

Habitat destruction and invasive species have severely...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says thousands of people have sent comments about a proposal for huge pumps to drain floodwaters from parts of the rural Mississippi Delta....

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana author who has written about the 1918 flu pandemic and the 1927 Mississippi River flood is receiving the state's annual writing award.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — Three suspects in the death of a man found floating in a southeast Mississippi river have had their charges upgraded to capital murder, bringing the number of facing that...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A massive fire at an eastern Missouri marina destroyed or damaged nearly 200 boats and left at least one person injured, authorities there said.

HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) — A ferry that connects Kentucky and Missouri has shut down service due to low water on the Mississippi River.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said the ferry will...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has drowned after tumbling down an embankment, hitting his head and falling into the Mississippi River, authorities say.

WOOD RIVER, Ill. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy fleeing police in a car he had allegedly stolen from a southwestern Illinois dealership died after it collided with another stolen car officers were also...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says levee and floodwall projects in seven states from Missouri to Louisiana include 101 areas where levees are an average of 2 feet below the...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say a hooded man stole a houseboat moored off an island along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis Sunday morning before he was arrested at shore.

GREY CLOUD ISLAND TOWNSHIP, Minn. (AP) — The bodies of two of the three victims aboard a single-engine plane that crashed into a quarry lake have been recovered, according to Washington County...

GREY CLOUD ISLAND TOWNSHIP, Minn. (AP) — Recovery crews have located a missing airplane in a water-filled quarry near the Mississippi River on Grey Cloud Island in south Washington County, the...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it is dedicating a new office in Colorado to coordinate all federal hardrock mine cleanup efforts west of the...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Crews recovered the body of a 6-year-old from the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis on Monday, ending a search that began Saturday.

PITTSFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois and Missouri’s partnership that replaced the 92-year-old Champ Clark Bridge over the Mississippi River has earned the two states a regional transportation award...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis has barricaded some downtown streets and a bridge that spans the Mississippi River near the Gateway Arch in an effort to halt reckless driving and violence in the area....

LeCLAIRE, Iowa (AP) — A second person has died from injuries he received in an eastern Iowa boat crash on the Mississippi River, Iowa officials said Wednesday.

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — A woman's body was discovered inside a vehicle belonging to a Kansas woman reported missing earlier this month but no foul play is suspected, authorities in Arkansas...

LeCLAIRE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities in eastern Iowa are seeking information on a boat crash in the Mississippi River near LeClaire that killed an Illinois woman.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical weather stirred up the Gulf of Mexico, reducing this year’s dead zone off Louisiana’s coast to the third-smallest ever measured, the scientist who has measured it since...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A trade union representing river pilots who guide vessels, including cruise ships, from the mouth of the Mississippi River to New Orleans wants a pay increase to get their...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — One person died and a child is missing after the two went underwater near a boat ramp on the Mississippi River, officials in Tennessee said Saturday.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) —

Ramsey County sheriff’s deputies have recovered the body of a missing child from the Mississippi River.

Searchers have been looking for the 11-year-old boy...

PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — One of two ferries that had closed due to mechanical issues has reopened.

The Cave-in-Rock Ferry, which carries about 500 vehicles daily across the Ohio River between...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Every summer, Dennis Simpson, 66, of Elizabethtown, Ohio, takes on a challenge that tests his endurance.

This summer of COVID-19, when just existing is testing the...

ALMA, Wis (AP) — A Minnesota woman walking to the Mississippi River to fish was struck and killed by a train in western Wisconsin.

Buffalo County sheriff’s authorities said Linda Sanden,...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana officials on Monday announced a new “smart port” project aimed at using technology to make dredging and operations decisions around New Orleans’s port.