ALTON, Ill. – 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.

ALTON — The National Great Rivers Museum, located at 2 Lock and Dam Way in Alton, will host the fourth annual Ice Jam at the Damat at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 15. Ice Jam at the Dam is a winter ...

More than 500 high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math flocked to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's Melvin Price Locks and Dam in Alton, Ill., Feb. 25, 2012.

Robert Landiss recorded the last days of the old Alton Lock and Dam 26 in the summer of 1983. This photo shows barges about to enter the main lock heading down river.

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 ...

A towboat pushes barges south on the Mississippi River near Wood River, Illinois after passing through the Melvin Price Locks and Dam in Alton on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. David Carson, Post-Dispatch ...

Ralph Duty, 47, and Raymound Hernandez, 24, were found near the gates of the Alton Lock and Dam, about two miles downstream from the barge they were working Thursday night when the accident ...

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 ...

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 U.S. Army Corps ...

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