Louisiana’s Atchafalaya swamp is a critical floodway for the Mississippi River, ... “And this is the old Bayou channel, which had existed for who knows how many years, ...

“A Secret History of American River People,” will journey by handmade shantyboat through Louisiana’s waterways. Artist Wes Modes and crew will navigate Bayou Teche and the Atchafalaya Basin.

Environmental groups in Louisiana are gearing up to fight a proposed 162-mile oil pipeline that would cut through the Atchafalaya Basin, a project involving the same companies building the ...

Construction on the Bayou Bridge pipeline has begun, even as opponents pursue multiple legal challenges to block the 163-mile line across southern Louisiana and some have promised to stand in ...

Bayou Teche begins near Port Barre in St. Landry Parish where it draws water from Bayou Courtableau. It flows southward for 125 miles until it meets the Lower Atchafalaya River at Patterson.

Louisiana lawmakers introduced a bill that would include Lafourche Parish into the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area. The Atchafalaya National Heritage Area is a zone that includes 14 parishes ...

A liquified propane gas transportation pipeline ruptured on Tuesday in the Atchafalaya Basin.

That could change soon. Water from the Mississippi River is racing towards Romero and the Atchafalaya Basin, where it will flow past Morgan City, an oil and seafood community of 12,000, and then ...

Heart of Louisiana: Atchafalaya Basin Swamp. By Dave McNamara. Published: May 9, 2023 at 10:28 PM CDT ... ATCHAFALAYA BASIN, La. (WVUE) - The Atchafalaya Swamp is a critical floodway for the ...

Louisiana lawmakers introduced a bill that would include Lafourche Parish into the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area. The Atchafalaya National Heritage Area is a zone that includes 14 parishes ...

In 2016, the Louisiana black bear was removed from the endangered species list, thanks largely to the growth of their population in the Atchafalaya River Basin.

Only two years after the passage of a bill that put speed cameras on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, the Louisiana Senate unanimously passed a bill this week to shut them down. Senators voted 38-0 on ...