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I-10 West is blocked on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge just before Whiskey Bay because of a crash, according to the Louisiana ...
Since 2014, the shantyboat has traveled more than 2,600 miles, gathering river histories for a public archive.
From the mysterious Lord God Bird to 100-million-year-old sturgeon, Louisiana's incredible wildlife needs our help to survive ...
In a stretch of wild land in Iberville Parish, a small dirt dam built across an out-of-the-way bayou is at the center of a ...
St. Martin Parish council members and swamp advocates are opposing a river diversion project in the Atchafalaya Basin, citing ...
By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens The Mississippi River is the nation’s most ...
A look back at some of the most destructive and deadliest hurricanes to ever hit Louisiana.
The marshy interior of southern Louisiana is home to a cuisine, language and sound all its own. Today, Cajun and Zydeco music, often sung in French, is enjoying a renaissance.
The closure of the 405-foot-long Bayou Chene floodgate is the first time the three-year-old structure has been used due to high water in the Atchafalaya, a St. Mary Parish levee official said.
Capri Cafaro catches crawfish in the bayou and experiences true ... exiled from French Canada and settled in the Atchafalaya River Basin of South Louisiana in the 18th century.
Each episode of NBC's The Americas focuses on a specific region of the American supercontinent. For an hour, narrator Tom Hanks takes us up close and personal with natural stories happening in ...
A great white heron appears through trees on Bayou Sorrel in the Atchafalaya River Basin in Louisiana in 2018. | Gerald Herbert/AP The CPRA declined interview requests, but responded to some ...