branson mo

Federal transportation safety investigators criticized the U.S. Coast Guard Wednesday for ignoring suggestions over nearly two decades to improve tourist duck boats, changes they say might have prevented last year’s Missouri accident that killed 17 people.

Two people were killed and four others injured Tuesday night in a head-on vehicle collision in Cole County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the body of a 37-year-old Branson woman has been recovered from Table Rock Lake.

U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri says everyone affected by last year’s duck boat tragedy on Table Rock Lake near Branson “deserves answers,” and he is urging federal agencies to wrap up their investigations.

One year after 17 people died when a boat sank on a Missouri lake near the tourist town of Branson, the question of whether the boats should return to the lake remains a topic of debate.

Authorities say four people were hurt when a boat exploded at Table Rock Lake.

A federal grand jury has indicted two more employees of a company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people.

The southwest Missouri tourist town of Branson is getting a new science attraction called WonderWorks.

Firefighters have contained a fire at a motel on the main strip that runs through the southwest Missouri tourist town of Branson.

The company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last year, killing 17 people, won’t operate the vessels this year and will instead open a replacement attraction in the tourist town of Branson.