A few luxury cruisers unexpectedly docked in Owensboro for the morning. High water levels on the Mississippi River forced a ...

A cruise ship will soon be present in Owensboro. Officials say the Viking Mississippi, Viking River Cruises’ river ship, will make a stop in Owensboro on July 3, ...

A group of Mississippi River shipping industry figures were treated to a tour of the Columbia-Snake river grain export system ...

Tapping into the astrotourism trend, Smithsonian Journeys will offer two itineraries next year dedicated to celestial wonders ...

The riverboat docking season at Cape Girardeau continues with a third arrival on Wednesday, June 25. The Viking Mississippi docked along the riverfront just before 9 a.m. This is the riverboat’s first ...

Members of the Upper Mississippi River Waterway Association will tour the Columbia-Snake River system the week of June 23. The tour is the latest in an ongoing partnership with Pacific […] ...

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in love with New Orleans jazz music, Delta blues and the deep South.

Yorkville-native, Wally Werderich, prepares to embark on his 2023 world record canoe trip down the Mississippi River. His team of four paddlers made it down the entire river in just under 17 days ...

“I am worried if we don’t get some rain soon, we are going to lose our tourism market, and then the commercial use of the river,” said Mayor George Flaggs. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the ...

ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER – In the wheelhouse high atop the rumbling, 240-foot boat, James Garner perched in a chair surrounded by levers, dials and screens. Below him, the Dredge Potter inched ...

As demand for overnight river cruises on the Mississippi increases, the industry also faces increasing climate threats. Recent years have seen wild swings between heavy rainfall and severe drought ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, say the last barge of the season passed through Lock and Dam 2 near Hastings, ending the 2022 Mississippi River navigation season.