River cruise line adds a second vessel to sail Pacific Northwest

After a two-week voyage through four Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, the first of three state-of-the-art fireboats will be joining the fleet at the Port of Houston Authority. "As the nation's busiest port in terms of foreign tonnage and home ...

The American Queen revived riverboat cruising on the Mississippi.(Photo: Jayne Clark, USA TODAY)TagsAstoriaPortlandMississippiThe American Queen Steamboat Co., which revived riverboat cruising on the Mississippi last year, is moving west, announcing ...

When Terry Serigny was growing up in Leeville, Louisiana, in the 1950s, the Mississippi River delta town was also known as Orange City for its many citrus groves. Today none of those groves remain. Leeville itself is vanishing, sinking into the Gulf ...

For more than 105 years, the paper mill anchored on the east bank of the Mississippi River helped sustain a community. It provided jobs for generations of Central Minnesotans and a consistent and important stream of tax dollars for a city that grew ...

By DONNA HARRIS dharris@sunherald.com MOSS POINT -- Divers found the body Saturday of a missing Moss Point fisherman in the Escatawpa River, and the man who was in the boat with him has been arrested on charges of felony possession of marijuana, ...

Once you cross either of the Mississippi River bridges from Fulton, you end up in Iowa, the Hawkeye State, the site of the first presidential caucuses every 4 years. And another thing -- a land of lower unemployment. In March, Iowa's jobless rate ...

The iconic paddle wheel of the Julia Belle Swain, one of the last steamboats to roam the mighty Mississippi River, has been stilled for almost five years. But it will be churning again soon, one way or another. The boat has languished off French ...

The Stearns County Sheriff's Office has completed its search of the Mississippi River for missing Eden Prairie woman Mandy Matula. Deputies had been searching the river with help from the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office at the request of the Eden ...

Weekly Barge Rates for Major Grain Shipping Points on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Arkansas Rivers Barge Freight Rates: Southbound Only Lower Twin Mid- Illinois St. Lower Cairo- Cities Mississippi River Louis Cincinnati Ohio Memphis Rate/1 5/14/2013 ...