A decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to send more water into the Atchafalaya Basin could be a boon for crawfishermen, and some state officials are hoping it’s a sign the federal agency might ...

Everything in life has its season. That's particularly true in South Louisiana, where the calendar is set by crawfish season, Saints season, shrimp season, duck season, carnival season and festival ...

The Wax Lake Delta in the Atchafalaya Basin is seen from 8,500 feet in St. Mary Parish, La., Tuesday, May 25, 2021. In geological time, young means thousands of years. On that scale, Louisiana's Wax ...

ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) — The St. Martin Parish Council has filed amicus brief in support of a lawsuit to stop a river diversion project in the Atchafalaya Basin. St. Martin Parish becomes the ...

This past weekend’s rainfall brought the invasive species Water Hyacinth down the Atchafalaya River Basin. Morgan City Mayor Lee Dragna said the water levels quickly increased due to nearly 10 inches ...

It's a road we love, hate, and love to hate. The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge happens to be one of man's greatest accomplishments. The Atchafalaya is one of the largest wetlands in the United States. For ...

The massive slug of water moving from the Midwest down the continent's rivers is wreaking havoc on Louisiana hunters' deer season. First, the state closed the season in portions of the Mississippi ...

The Atchafalaya Basin (dark green in this satellite image, with the Atchafalaya River running through its center) is almost a million acres of bottomland woods and swamp. DeWitt Braud, LSU/USGS Nat.

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana -- A Louisiana man made a decision that could have been deadly. Instead, it got him in trouble with law enforcement. Jimmy Jennings of Lafayette is seen on video jumping from ...

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 faraway ...

The ninth annual "Save the Basin," a celebration of the Atchafalaya Basin, will be Sunday, March 16, at Rock and Bowl in downtown Lafayette. The event will feature live music from Louisiana artists, ...