The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Secretary Stephen Chustz issued the following statement to update the public on response efforts in Bayou Corne and around the sinkhole. The update ...

BAYOU CORNE — Nearly a week after Assumption Parish homeland security officials lessened the severity of a 3-year-old evacuation order stemming from the sinkhole near La. 70, lunchtime customers ...

What happened in Bayou Corne, as near as anyone can tell, is that one of the salt caverns Texas Brine hollowed out—a mine dubbed Oxy3—collapsed. The sinkhole initially spanned about an acre.

On Aug. 3, 2012, just 12 hours after the sinkhole developed, Assumption Parish ordered a mandatory evacuation of the Bayou Corne community. The order wasn't lifted until 2016.

Reporters from CNN, Al Jazeera, and The New York Times headed to Bayou Corne, the unincorporated fishing town next to the sinkhole. John Boudreaux, the local official coordinating the containment ...

Little seemed to change until 2012, when the earth convulsed and a sinkhole opened in Bayou Corne, swallowing acres of swampland and upending the community. First, residents had noticed bubbling ...

The sinkhole, triggered by a collapsed cavern operated by salt mining operator Texas Brine Company LLC, swallowed trees and fouled the air when it appeared August 3. Its discovery sent the Bayou Corne ...

Officials in Assumption Parish recorded the sinkhole in Bayou Corne swallowing a cluster of trees in less than a minute Wednesday.Watch videoThe sinkhole pulled the trees down into the water with ...

In the first years after the sinkhole appeared, the rest of Bayou Corne’s residents were bought out by Texas Brine Co. through private settlements and as part of a class-action lawsuit.

a state district judge criticized three companies for putting "economic interests over environmental and safety concerns" in operations that led to the formation of the 2012 Bayou Corne sinkhole ...

The donated buildings were among the more than 135 homes in the Bayou Corne community that Texas Brine bought out after a sinkhole formed on company leased land in early August 2012, church and ...