Reader Colleen Batchelor asked, “I’ve always wondered how it came to be that the main waterways in Houston are called ‘bayous’ and not referred to as creeks or rivers.” The query plops ...

Mardi Gras is the greatest party on Earth. Here's how the locals celebrate. The seasons on the bayous of Louisiana are not necessarily summer, fall, winter, and spring. They are marked by nature, ...

We moved out there in 1957. These are communities not formed around the town square but on the opposing banks of bayous. Everybody had a pirogue and hunted frogs. A lot of people hunted alligators.

Bayou Segnette State Park is a good place to do so.

GULF COAST, Miss. (WLOX) - Hundreds of thousands of dead mullet drifting down bayous along southeast Mississippi were victims of the historic snowstorm that swept across the Gulf Coast late last ...

In a 2-4 vote, Biloxi City Council rejected proposed changes to the city’s public records ordinance during Tuesday’s meeting. The property on the end of Debuys Road where a Red Lobster once ...

GBEP is one of the nation’s 28 estuary programs dedicated to preserving our bays, bayous, and estuaries for future generations in collaboration with local communities and organizations ...

A seawall in Galveston buffers storm surge from the Gulf. Bayous and man-made channels drain water from the region. Levees protect suburban neighborhoods, and lakes meant to be sources for ...

In fact, there would be no New Orleans without the bayous, so you owe it to yourself to take a swamp tour. A mix of saltwater and freshwater, the bayous are home to crawfish, shrimp, deer and ...

The seasons on the bayous of Louisiana are not necessarily summer, fall, winter, and spring. They are marked by nature, traditions, and distinct emotions. They are rituals playing out on a stove ...

The Galveston Bay Estuary Program is one of 28 estuary programs in the nation, dedicated to protecting and revitalizing Houston’s bayous and estuaries for future generations. In collaboration ...