The story is true. The German sub officially was known as U-166. It was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

NEW ORLEANS — High river levels caused six barges to break loose, one barge to sink, and halted river traffic near New Orleans Sunday night, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. There were no ...

These are the emerging challenges Louisiana and the nation are struggling to content with on the lower Mississippi River.

The crew of a tugboat was quickly rescued when their vessel sank into the Mississippi River following a collision with a tanker ship in Louisiana ... The U.S. Coast Guard’s 8th District office in New ...

The ship cruises up and down the Mississippi River, between New Orleans and St. Paul, year round. Some trips are shorter, only doing a portion of the river: New Orleans to Memphis; New Orleans to ...

NEW ORLEANS — There's a new royal of riverboats on the Mississippi. The company that operates the much-beloved American Queen on Monday officially welcomed a second vessel to the river ...

New Orleans’ stretch of the river is expected to crest in the coming ... High water levels caused at least one shipping boat collision, but no injuries were reported. This year’s crest will ...

while parts of New Orleans were flooded. Patrick Harvey, director of the Plaquemines Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said the people were aboard a boat in the ...

The crew of a tugboat was quickly rescued when their vessel sank into the Mississippi River following a collision with a tanker ship in Louisiana ... office in New Orleans, known as Coast Guard ...

Tugboat Sinks in the Mississippi River After Collision With Tanker Ship in Louisiana LULING ... The U.S. Coast Guard's 8th District office in New Orleans, known as Coast Guard Heartland, said ...