The $330 million Maurepas Swamp Project will divert up to 2,000 cubic feet per second of river water into the wetlands, providing oxygen, nutrients and fresh water. Officials said it will revitalize ...

Reconnecting the dying swamp to fresh river water is vital for the health of the swamp’s cypress-tupelo forest, which ...

Retired New Orleans priest, 93, pleads guilty to kidnapping and raping boys in 1970s - Lawrence Hecker faces spending the ...

A disgraced 93-year-old New Orleans priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 1975. Lawrence Hecker, who left the ministry in 2002, had been scheduled ...

"As human beings, we crave stability. That's just innate. We crave a level of predictability, and we're doing so in a very ...

Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative announced a new insurance pilot, with hopes of better helping river towns ...

The cold remains settled in nicely across the area but that will change later in the week as rain chances are set to return.

The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane season will officially be classified as a “very active season,” producing 18 named storms, 11 ...

Laitrim CEO Jay Lapeyre, who oversaw selection of post-Katrina east and west bank levee authority board members, has resigned ...

The six-month season saw an above-average number of storms. Scientists say climate change is leading to more powerful and ...

For 45 years Ronald Dufrene, best known as Mister Jug, has been catching shrimp along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana.