Grand Isle News

The award for Best Regional Roots Music Album was one of 78 presented in a special pre-show ceremony, a few hours before Sunday night's 7 p.m. broadcast on CBS and WWL-TV. , like the Saints winning the Super Bowl again," said co-founder Keith Frazier in his speech.

State coastal restoration and levee projects should be designed to anticipate an average 3.3 feet increase in sea level over the next 100 years, according to a new Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority report.

After I discussed getting in the last word with law enforcement officers who stop us for various traffic violations, it occurred to me that there's hardly any way you can get the best of these folks.

The New Orleans area has been ravaged repeatedly by hurricanes during its 200-year history, with the first major hurricane in 1722 destroying nearly every structure in the four-year-old village, including its only church, parsonage and hospital.

FOURCHON, La. - The owners of a private beach in Fourchon say they will fight any attempt to expropriate the land and make it public.

Rarely has quantifying Louisiana's annual shrimp harvest generated as much interest as it has this year, as scientists, shrimpers and even the general public nervously await news of how many shrimp were pulled from coastal waters battered in recent years by drought, flooding and the massive BP oil spill .

Maya Rodriguez / Eyewitness News NEW ORLEANS-- It's been a busy few months for Suzanne Smith of the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas.

The Interior Department will put 38 million undersea acres up for sale in June. Conservationists raise alarms over new Gulf of Mexico drilling Workers search for signs washed-up oil as they walk along a beach in Grand Isle, La., Thursday, Aug.

The list of initial projects covered by $1 billion pledged by BP to begin to repair the damage done by the 2010 oil spill includes creating 104 acres of marsh, placing oyster cultch on six public seed beds and upgrading a Grand Isle oyster hatchery.

LSU and Georgia Tech professors are collaborating on a project to improve the ability of robots to test for dangerous substances in areas hazardous to humans.