As area rivers deal with ice due to recent freezing temperatures, officials continue to monitor local waterways for potential ...

The Fox River locks system will open for the season on May 17, and Appleton lock 1 will remain open for two additional hours on Saturday evenings so boaters can access downtown Appleton businesses. In ...

Get on a boat on the upper Mississippi River, and you'll eventually come upon a looming concrete structure stretching across the river's main channel. It's called a lock and dam, and it's a distinct ...

KAUKAUNA (WLUK) -- The Fox Locks is asking the public for help in reaching its donation goal to improve portages on the Fox River locks system. Thanks to a matching grant challenge from the David L.

No matter the weather, at the McAlpine Locks and Dam, ice left unchecked can wreak havoc on the system.

KAUKAUNA (WLUK) -- The board which operates the Fox River locks will not pursue an electrification barrier for the Menasha lock-- and will keep the lock between Lake Winnebago and Little Lake Butte ...

Work is underway to build a new island in the Mississippi River near Hastings, a $10 million project aimed at preserving the lock-and-dam system that allows some 10 million tons of goods to be shipped ...

Some 6 million tons of commodities passed through the lock and dam along the Mississippi River in Hastings in 2023, and with navigation season at a pause, crews this winter have undertaken the ...

BELLEVUE, Iowa — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) said she wanted to make updating an aging Mississippi River lock and dam system a long-term priority. The Iowa representative toured Lock and Dam 12, ...

How the locks-and-dams system came to be on the Upper Mississippi River: • When the first European explorers came to the Upper Mississippi Valley maybe 350 years ago, the river had a braided channel ...