A barge collided with a bridge near Parkersburg on Saturday night. At around 10:15 p.m., a boat carrying a coal barge hit the ...

Flooding on the Ohio River has halted barge traffic at Markland Dam. One barge tow can carry the same amount as 1,050 ...

President Donald Trump is looking to give coal a lift with executive orders he inked on Tuesday. One order seeks to reclassify coal as a mineral and promote leasing on federal lands.

The tug, named the Elizabeth M, was pushing six coal barges north on the river when it went through the lock at the Montgomery Island Dam about 2:30 a.m. After it emerged on the other side ...

Anyone who has followed an overloaded coal truck on the Country Music Highway, from the mines of the Big Sandy Valley to the barge ports on the Ohio between Ashland and Greenup, knows there is no ...

When Josh and Flora Camacho-Clowes bought the boat they now call home for £21,000 from its previous owner who had won it in a game of cards, nothing on board the former coal and concrete barge worked.

He reversed hard, pushing the throttle to full. The diesels shook the 165-foot barge and its thousand metric tons of coal with a mighty shudder. He spun the wheel, flipped the gear, and gunned the ...