The bridge is a lifeline for communities in southwest Wisconsin and northeast Iowa. It's been closed since May 17 due to ...

Environmentalists have come out against a potential bridge corridor that would bisect and partially destroy a primeval ...

Long Bridge across the Mississippi River When this $13,000,000 structure is completed December 1, 1935. It is located a mile and a half above New Orleans at Nine MilePoint; a combination railroad ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A new bridge is set to be built across the Mississippi River, connecting Memphis and Arkansas. The United States Department of Transportation will provide $393.75 million to ...

Louisiana’s Department of Transportation and Development is working to build a new bridge across the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, meant to alleviate congestion and fuel growth on both ...

The truss bridge that crosses the Mississippi River from rural Perry County to Chester, Illinois, collapsed in 1944. It was and is the only bridge across the Mississippi River between St. Louis ...

THE BRIDGE, MAKE CERTAIN THAT THEY’RE SAFE, AND USE ALL PRECAUTION THAT YOU CAN FOR THE TWO BRIDGES ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. HAVE STURDY SUPPORTS THAT HAVE BEEN STRUCK. AN ESTIMATED 300 TIMES OR ...

shows a train moving across the pontoon barge bridge (foreground) over the Mississippi River at Marquette in northeast Iowa. (Gazette archives) In the early 1800s, navigating across the ...

On the Mississippi River, large pancakes of drifting ... River lore is filled with tales of daring people getting across without aid of bridges during hard winters. In 1873, horse teams crossed ...

CHESTER, Ill. -- Construction on the new bridge spanning across the Mississippi River from Chester and into Perry County, Missouri, is officially underway. The Illinois Department of ...

he said. For now, including bridges connecting to and from Mississippi, there are 11 bridges across the Mississippi in Louisiana — and eight bridges crossing the river in Louisiana alone.