Shipping

Backyard and large-scale farmers in the Midwest and around the country report more deliveries that arrive too late for baby birds to survive. The trend is part of complaints about the USPS as it tries to stem budgetary bleeding.

The Mississippi River has reached near-historic lows for the second year in a row, which is slowing down shipping and driving up costs for everyone from barge companies to grain elevators.

“We learned only a couple hours before the president made the announcement that the Department of Defense was going to be a part of this,” said one member of TRANSCOM at Scott. The first shipment arrived this past weekend.

A national shortage of 80,000 truck drivers is spurring worry about the country's reliance on long-haul shipping.

Some Mississippi River tugboats will be getting an upgrade thanks to a federal grant aimed at reducing air pollution.The more than $300,000 grant from the…

Legislation before the Missouri House would make it easier and cheaper for a Canadian company to ship radioactive material through the state.If the bill…

Reporting from KRCU's Jacob McCleland used in this report.Missouri Department of Transportation officials anticipate the Panama Canal Expansion Project…

After years of drought, barge operators along the Missouri River got more rain than they had hoped for this year.The industry had grown optimistic when…