Passengers walk up the waterfront on Wednesday morning at the Marietta Levee after getting off the American Heritage paddlewheeler. (Photo by Michelle Dillon) MARIETTA — A paddlewheeler visited ...

SEATTLE -- A local pastor says he's found the perfect place to grow his Seattle-area church. Not a building or a piece of property - instead, he wants to buy a paddle-wheeler and turn it into a ...

American Cruise Lines’ new Mississippi paddlewheeler has been named the American Eagle and will sail its first revenue cruise on March 28. After announcing last December that it would introduce four ...

When the 150-passenger Queen of the Mississippi set sail this month, making it the first paddlewheeler built in the U.S. since the American Queen launched in 1995, it begged the question: Why a ...

WASHOUGAL — Passenger Bonnie Westbrook had nothing but high praise for the American Empress paddlewheeler, which docked Wednesday for the first time at the Port of Camas-Washougal. “The food is really ...

American Countess, a 361-foot paddlewheel vessel with four passenger decks, is due to dock Sunday, Aug. 27, at Cape Girardeau's Riverfront Park. VisitCape reports the boat, built in 1996 and ...

OTSU, Japan >> The Michigan sightseeing ship, a paddle-wheeler resembling a classic U.S. steamboat, is celebrating 40 years of taking people out on Lake Biwa pleasure cruises. The vessel with the ...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Paddle power is returning to St. Louis. With the demise last year of Majestic America Line, operator of three steamboats including the Delta Queen, the nation's rivers are a lonely ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Fire ripped through the second deck of a docked tourist cruise boat under repair at Lake Tahoe on Tuesday, severely damaging the popular paddle wheeler and injuring two workers on ...

The owners of the 138-foot paddle-wheeler Queen of Seattle have agreed to sell the vessel for $250,000 to a fledgling Seattle-area church that hopes to use it for retreats, worship, counseling ...

Along the dusty gravel approach road, the horizon wobbles. The relentless desert heat has roasted reality into a flitting, shimmering semi-blur. Several weeks of 40 degree-plus temperatures have ...