A federal court order temporarily blocking construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline is limited to the Atchafalaya Basin, and work can continue elsewhere along the length of the 163-mile crude ...

BATON ROUGE (CN) — The federal judge who granted environmentalists’ injunction to stop a pipeline from crossing the Atchafalaya Basin concluded that public interest in wetlands outweighs a company’s ...

The Atchafalaya Basin Program was revamped in 2008, and none of the staff involved with the Bayou Postillion project work for the Department of Natural Resources anymore.

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 ...

BATON ROUGE (CN) — A federal judge stopped construction Friday of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline though the Atchafalaya River Basin, one of North America’s “ecological crown jewels” and largest swamp, ...

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 Secret History of American River People,” will journey by handmade shantyboat through Louisiana’s waterways. Artist Wes Modes and crew will navigate Bayou Teche and the Atchafalaya Basin.

On Saturday afternoon, Sandra Kelly, a 53-year-old cook, stood along the Atchafalaya (pronounced: Attach-uh-fah-la-ya) River, which connects the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and sighed ...

"Work to construct the Intercoastal Canal link between the Atchafalaya River and the Bayou Terrebonne extending over a period of nearly 30 years, has resulted in active operations being started at ...

The TECHE Project is the all-volunteer, nonprofit organization representing the many assets of the Bayou Teche/Atchafalaya corridor. In 2015, ...

The Atchafalaya National Heritage Area awards grant to support the production of 16 information kiosks providing a new means of telling the stories of the Bayou Teche/Atchafalaya corridor and ...

The Morganza floodgates send Mississippi River water down a 20-mile spillway and into the Atchafalaya River. ... National Guardsmen have zipped up and down the road along the bayou, ...