Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Swamp pop crooner Terry DeRouen who began recording songs at the age of 14 and ...

(AP) — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities ...

Louisiana is home to America's largest swamp, which offers a variety of fun activities to check out during your next vacation ...

Less than an hour outside of New Orleans lies an iconic landscape filled with all the things one may think of when picturing Louisiana: bald cypress trees draped in delicate Spanish moss, alligators ...

The project, which has been discussed for decades, involves building a small-scale river diversion to revitalize one of the last remaining coastal freshwater swamps in Louisiana. “This is ...

The 176 square mile (456 square kilometers) Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second largest contiguous forest, a beloved state wildlife refuge filled with water ...

Officials celebrate the groundbreaking of the Maurepas Swamp revitalization project. Photo: Courtesy of Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority ...

Multiple tour companies offer different kinds of boat tours of the Louisiana swamps; several combine a swamp tour with a stop at a local plantation. To find which tour best fits your travel plans ...

GARYVILLE, Louisiana: Louisiana's State and federal authorities celebrated breaking ground on an ambitious conservation project intended to replenish the 176-square-mile Maurepas Swamp to the west of ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Palmetto leaves are seen along a bank in the Maurepas Swamp in Ruddock, La., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 ...

The 456 square kilometers of Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second-largest contiguous forest, a state wildlife refuge filled with water tupelo and bald cypress ...

To Save a Dying Swamp, Louisiana Aims to Restore the Mississippi River's Natural Flow GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and ...