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Two stretches of the southern Mississippi River were reopened to commercial traffic over the weekend after dredging operations…

Financial Times writers Roman Olearchyk, Mehul Srivastava, Max Seddon, and Christopher Miller reported today that, "Vladimir Putin has described Russia’s massive airstrikes on Ukraine, its most extensive since the early weeks of his seven-month invasion, as retaliation for the bombing of the bridge linking Russia to the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea."

Prolonged drought is jeopardizing waterborne trade along the Mississippi River, a basin that produces 92% of the nation’s agricultural exports.

By Joe Deaux, Michael Hirtzer and Kim Chipman (Bloomberg) — Shippers struggling to move grains and fertilizer along a dried-up Mississippi River are also racing to beat the start of winter...

By Sophie Caronello (Bloomberg) Prolonged drought is jeopardizing waterborne trade along the Mississippi River, a basin that produces 92% of the nation’s agricultural exports. As of Friday, the river was still closed...

The U.S. Coast Guard has closed a section of the Lower Mississippi River for dredging. The river is closed near Stack Island, near Lake Providence, Louisiana, about 200 miles north...

Amidst an ongoing drought, the U.S. Coast Guard has temporarily closed the Mississippi River near Stack Island, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee bec...

Catch up on how the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan is going and the status of the Mississippi River.

Dry spells in California and the southwest get the most media attention, but the most consequential drought in the US may be some 1,600 miles...

Nucor (NUE) does not expect to load barges with steel shipments for a few weeks as low water levels in the Mississippi River cause extreme backups for water traffic in both...