by admin | Jul 24, 2006 | Business, Transportation
The United States Army Corps of Engineers is draining water out of three lakes in Kansas to keep enough water in the Missouri River for barges to operate. That water supplements releases from the big upstream dams, where water levels already are 30-feet below normal....
by admin | Jun 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
A boating accident on the Missouri River has killed a man from Lexington. Lafayette County authorities say a boat carrying Adam Ashinhurst and two other men hit a wing dike on their way back from a fishing trip, throwing Ashinhurst out of the boat.
by admin | Jun 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
The town is gone now. But once it was one of the most flourishing towns in the entire state, once one of the important trade centers of the West. It was the beginning point of one of America’s most important trails west and an important way station on another...
by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | Crime / Courts
Attorney General Jay Nixon has filed a lawsuit to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from conducting a manmade flood, or Spring rise, on the Missouri River in May. The rise is supposed to help some endangered fish in the river. Nixon says the Corps has not followed...
by admin | Apr 25, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case brought forward by North Dakota and South Dakota that would re-prioritize the management of the Missouri River to make recreation the top priority for the reservoir system, and not flood control and navigation as...
