After taking a beating for years from towboats pushing cargo up and down the Mississippi River, the upper miter gates in the Lock and Dam 15 main lock near the Arsenal Island are getting some time off ...

When it opened in the 1934, Lock and Dam 15 tamed the Rock Island rapids, the narrowest, most treacherous stretch of the upper Mississippi River. Part of the upper Mississippi's 9-foot navigation ...

ROCK ISLAND -- Mississippi River traffic was slowly unsnarling Wednesday, after the main lock of Lock and Dam 15 re-opened after nearly a week of repairs. Of 254 vessels currently on the river between ...

After sizing up the three lighting configurations on Lock and Dam 15 on Wednesday night, Charlie White of Rock Island said they made the structure look like a railroad crossing or a street or a ...