Their Avoca Island holdings, including Avoca Plantation, were purchased at a sheriff's sale in 1928 by Charles W. Fox for the Whitney Bank of New Orleans, one of the Pharrs' major creditors.

So they turned their attention to the southern bank, where the privately held Avoca Island is located. Using computer models, state officials looked at a curved canal that is wider and deeper at ...

Officials with the Coast Guard say on December 23, 2021, at approximately 3:26 a.m., a towing vessel pushing six barges was traveling southeast along the Avoca Island Cutoff waterway when one of ...

AVOCA -- People who live in a community in Luzerne County say a PennDOT project has left them feeling like they're living on an island. Many construction projects have wrapped up for the winter ...