Discover the historic moments of Alton Lock and Dam 26 through Robert Landiss's lens from the summer of 1983.

Lights along Lock and Dam Way in Alton near the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center are now new and improved.

The Melvin Price Locks and Dam in Alton has closed to all commercial and recreational traffic after engineers learned of a concerning crack in one of the lock chamber’s lift gates.

The main lock chamber of the Melvin Price Lock and Dam near Alton is closed to all Mississippi River traffic after a towboat collided with a lift gate on Tuesday.

A weekend eagle sighting event was held at the Alton Visitor Center, the National Great Rivers Museum at the Melvin Price Locks and Dam and the Audubon Center at Riverlands.

ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A damaged lock chamber on the Mississippi River near Alton has reopened to barge traffic after being closed for nearly eight months for emergency repairs.

The government wants to spend $87 million on the new Lock and Dam 26 at Alton, Ill., in the coming fiscal year and also would start flood-control work at the South Quincy Levee and Drainage Distric… ...

Sheriffs Brian Swedberg and Roy Torgerson have shared photos and additional details on the Genoa Lock and Dam incident in ...

ALTON, Ill. – One local recreation area will be closed this weekend. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has closed the ‘Maple Island Access’ recreation area in West Alton.

When the Meadow Pond Dam in Alton failed in March 1996, it sent a wall of water rushing downhill to Route 140, threatening lives and nearly washing away a small neighborhood.

Monday, the Army awarded a $7.7 million contract to Russellville-based G&G Steel for a new lift gate at the Melvin Price Lock & Dam in Alton, Illinois.

Alton, Ill (WAND) – They are the backbone of the U.S. economy. Yet, locks and dams on inland waterways are in need of billions of dollars in repairs, replacements and upgrades. “Sixty-five ...