Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Healthy cypress forests like the one pictured here at Bayou Sorrel, Louisiana, are part of what makes the Atchafalaya Basin a ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY) — A new fishing regulation has been issued for the Atchafalaya Basin and nearby waterbodies, according to Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF). Officials stated ...

The 16th annual Swamp Life Expo in Grosse Tete offers free food and family activities celebrating Atchafalaya heritage.

Gov. John Bel Edwards on Monday created a new Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement Task Force to help the state navigate the conflicting interests within the basin, including fishers, ...

A coalition of conservation groups on Friday announced the formation of the Atchafalaya Basin Coalition and sent a letter to Gov. John Bel Edwards imploring him to consider the Louisiana Nature ...

BAYOU PIGEON, La. (Louisiana First) — The Atchafalaya Basin puts millions of Louisiana residents at risk of losing everything when it floods, due in part to the constant buildup of sediment. The ...

LAKE FAUSSE POINTE, Louisiana — On a sweltering day just before sunset, Harold Schoeffler plowed a small rusty motorboat through murky-brown water, a wall of cypress trees towering behind him.

Basin fisherman Roy Blanchard, 63, says, “It’s a way of life that is now dying.” Not that the Atchafalaya isn’t still swarming with critters. Gators 12 feet long share its murky depths with 80- pound ...

Barrier posts and signs mark a decades-old pipeline canal Thursday, January 26, 2017, in the Atchafalaya Basin. A pipeline marker stands along the spoil banks of an existing-pipeline canal, the same ...

A federal judge has rescinded a federal permit for a coastal restoration project in the Atchafalaya Basin, marking a win for environmental groups who sued to block the work. Judge Brian A. Jackson of ...

IBERVILLE PARISH, La. (KPLC) - Work will begin to repair the right lane on I-10 eastbound near Whiskey Bay, along the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, where crews discovered extensive damage. The right lane ...