If Cornel Martin and his team of riverboat enthusiasts have their way, the Delta Queen will soon leave retirement and return to a life of cruising Midwestern waterways. All that stands in their path ...

After a decade in dock, the historic 1920s-era Delta Queen riverboat will cruise again. President Donald Trump signed legislation on Tuesday authorizing the 285-foot-long (87-meter-long) riverboat ...

ST. LOUIS -- A group of riverboat enthusiasts is trying to get the 1920s era paddlewheeler Delta Queen back on the Mississippi River. Former Delta Queen Steamboat Co. executive Cornel Martin was in St ...

The Delta Queen on the Tennessee River in 2015. (AP photo) On Wednesday morning, I read in the Post-Dispatch that Missouri’s U.S. senators, Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt, had joined hands to try to ...

ST. LOUIS — An effort to get the legendary Delta Queen riverboat back afloat on the Mississippi River and its tributaries got a boost Wednesday when the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee agreed to ...

Man accused of stabbing woman and jumping into the Ohio River to appear in court The man who police say jumped off the Purple People Bridge after stabbing a woman will appear in court on Tuesday.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The Delta Queen has a new owner and will be heading to Louisiana for renovations before plying the rivers once again. Cornel Martin of Houma, La., president and CEO of the Delta ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The historic Delta Queen riverboat is up for sale, and although it's now a floating hotel docked in Tennessee, some are hoping it gets back to its roots by carrying tourists ...

In what has escalated into a heated bidding war for what was left of American Classic Voyages' Delta Queen Steamboats, came to an end yesterday with Delaware North Companies sealing the deal with the ...

Two of the last authentic steamboats, the America and Cincinnati, raced upstream on the Ohio River from Louisville’s wharf on Aug. 19, 1928, to see which boat could reach Rose Island the fastest. Once ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A group of riverboat enthusiasts is trying to get the 1920s era paddlewheeler Delta Queen back on the Mississippi River. Former Delta Queen Steamboat Co. executive Cornel Martin was ...