Louisiana News

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin is moving to put the invasive bighead carp species of Asian carp on a list of creatures prohibited from importation into the United States.

A team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University and the University of Michigan is forecasting that the a oedead zonea off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be one of the largest on record.

Today's picture comes from Lawrence Doyle. It's a statue Robert Cavelier de La Salle.

Former congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt says it took him "about 25 years" to get Interstate 540 completed from the Fayetteville area to I-40 at Alma.

How do you describe the trip of a lifetime? How does one put into words the experience of a seven-plus week wilderness adventure, taken by two young friends on a kayak along a major river, fraught with perils and new experiences at every turn? "This trip did not change my life at all," Charles Vaught said.

Anyone can look these up. How well can you do from knowledge you already have? Answers are in comments .

Can modern forensic science help solve a 200 year old mystery? The descendants of famed explorer Meriwether Lewis sure hope so.

Tod a y, Governor Bobby Jind a l a nnounced a commitment of mo re th a n $7 million in feder a l stimulus funds for co a st a l restor a tion efforts in P l a quemi ne s a nd Jefferson P a rishes.

The state of Louisiana is losing its coastal wetlands to the Gulf of Mexico, and a new study suggests that conservationists won't be able to turn the tide.

Even under best-case scenarios for massive engineering projects to restore Louisiana's coastline, the Mississippi River can't feed enough sediment into the marshes to prevent catastrophic land loss.

Published: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 4:10 a.m. Desperate to halt the erosion of Louisiana's coast, officials there are talking about breaking Mississippi River levees south of New Orleans to restore the nourishing flow of muddy water into the state's marshes.

Meriwether Lewis, one half of the Lewis and Clark explorer duo who first reached the Pacific by land, may have been murdered, say descendants who want his body exhumed.

The St. Louis BBB has received 158 complaints over that past three years about a Louisiana, Mo., company that sells contact lens.

The scientists' latest forecast, released June 18, calls for a Gulf dead zone of between 7,450 and 8,456 square miles - an area about the size of New Jersey.

A consortium of ocean researchers say the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico this summer may be the largest ever.

A team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University, and the University of Michigan is forecasting that the "dead zone" off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be one of the largest on record.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the 2009 spring inshore shrimp season will close on Monday in Zone 2, the middle of three zones.

In the 1960s, a group of businessmen bought 16,000 acres of swampy bottomland along the Ouachita River in northern Louisiana and built miles of levee around it.

Researchers say the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico could be one of the largest on record and continue to threaten the half billion dollar gulf coast seafood industry.

Scientists are forecasting that the dead zone off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be the one of the biggest on record.