Louisiana News

CLARKSVILLE, Mo. - A second landslide is raising concerns along Route 79 in northeast Missouri.

Avro Energy, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is starting workover operations this week on the Dixon Narcarrow #1 well in South Arkansas, subject to rig availability.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Louisiana Recovery Authority recently announced more than $7.3 million in public assistance grants to fund work necessary to help restore three Katrina-damaged harbors, ports and locks throughout southeast Louisiana.

Myriant Technologies LLC , a leading biotech developer and manufacturer of renewable biochemicals, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive up to $50 million for its planned biobased Succinic Acid facility in Louisiana.

Interactions between Freshwater Input, Light, and Phytoplankton Dynamics on the Louisiana Continental Shelf.

Surrounded by shelves stocked with 180 different wooden train cars, Sandy Oliver boxes orders at Whittle Shortline Railroad in New London, Mo.

Chris Shows, left, runs his hand over the well-worn wood of an oar block on the Annie, on Tuesday as he and son Walker, 7, examine the 32-foot York boat that sailed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.

University of Louisiana at Monroe associate professor of biology Russell Minton and a pair of his graduate students came across the flamed tigersnail, thought to no longer be found in Louisiana, by accident.

Oil and natural gas producer Energy XXI will become a bigger player in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico under a deal to buy certain offshore assets from Mit Energy Upstream, a unit of Japan's Mitsui & Co.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it aims to stop agricultural runoff in 41 watersheds in 12 states from ending up in the Mississippi River.

One of the tickets sold in Oklahoma for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 7-26-36-49-58 Powerball: 4 Power Play: 5 The player matching all five numbers and the Powerball won the $32.8 million jackpot.

For the first time this academic year, college campuses have reported a significant drop in cases of influenza-like illness, generally assumed to be pandemic H1N1 influenza, according to the American College Health Assn.

Transportation commitments from gas shippers contribute to plans to increase Haynesville shale gas production by nearly twice the current level, producers say.

The Arkansas Lottery Commission agreed Tuesday to sell Mega Millions tickets next year, making multistate jackpots available to lottery participants four nights a week instead of two.

KENNETT, MO Supporters from across the country converged on the Dunklin County Courthouse Monday to voice public outrage against the Kennett Police Department and Dunklin County Prosecutor's Office.

Despite the high number of sub-standard bridges throughout the nation, bridge engineers remain optimistic they will be able to reduce number of deficient bridges Although a shockingly high number of bridges in the remain sub-standard, highway and bridge engineers are optimistic about reducing the number of structurally deficient and functionally ...

Greenwood senior guard Jeffrey Simmons signed a binding national letter-of-intent today to play basketball next season at Middle Tennessee State University.

There's been talk recently about how oil drilling has made the Texas and Louisiana coast look dirty.

Whether a large area of low oxygen water called the "dead zone" in the northern Gulf of Mexico could cause declines in environmentally and economically important fish populations is the subject of a new study by University of Texas at Austin marine scientist Peter Thomas.

Tropical Storm Ida was forecast to make landfall Tuesday morning. The system was expected to continue losing strength as it pushed over land and was no longer fed by moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.