COLUMBUS, Mississippi — With flooding along the Mississippi River, transportation on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway has picked up in some areas. "We've just seen a very small increase," Allan Brewer ...

An idea tracing back to the 1780s, a residual product spawned from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, a shape-shifter for a 234-mile stretch of Mississippi and Alabama, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In this Tuesday, July 9, 2019 photo, Fred ...

COFFEEVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A boat sunk in a lock on the Tombigbee River in southwest Alabama, temporarily blocking the passage until crews can remove it. WKRG-TV reported that Coffeeville Lock and Dam ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KFVS) - Governor Andy Beshear was elected by the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority to serve as its chairman for 2023. According to a release from the governor’s office ...

Some call it a boon to industrial development and commercial trade in Alabama and Mississippi. Others say it's a boondoggle, a waste of two billion taxpayer dollars that cost farmers their land and ...

DEMOPOLIS, Ala. (WSFA) - The Tombigbee River in Demopolis continues to rise, and it’s on its way to being the sixth-highest level on record for the city. Now, there’s added to the concern: more rain ...

Bennie and Kathy Johnson moved their house to keep it safe from floodwaters. But the water is still lapping at their doorstep, and there’s no easy way to fix it. The steady erosion of the Tombigbee ...

About 250 years after Frenchman Sieur de Bienville suggested the idea, it finally stretched out as a reality beneath Thomas Griffith`s vantage on a flat embankment. As mayor of this town of 7,500, ...

EPES, Ala.EPES, Ala. — More than a century in the making, the 234-mile (376-kilometer) Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway was supposed to fulfill a dream of “orderly growth and prosperity” when it opened in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EPES, Ala. (AP) — More than a century in the ...