Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Louisiana's largest lake, the Toledo Bend Reservoir, spans 1,200 miles of shoreline, the state's deepest lake only spans ...

While Louisiana's largest lake, the Toledo Bend Reservoir, spans 1,200 miles of shoreline, the state's deepest lake only spans 1,125 acres. Lake Peigneur is the deepest lake in Louisiana, with a depth ...

Adam Telle, the assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, issued a memorandum on Jan. 31 directing the Corps to move ...

The wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale nearly 150 years ago has been discovered, searchers announced last week, completing a quest that began nearly 60 years ago. Shipwreck ...

The National Weather Service is forecasting a “wet Mardi Gras weekend” in southwest Louisiana, and a Mardi Gras celebration in Lake Charles has already been canceled. On Thursday, Mardi Gras of ...

Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50. She now splits her time between Colorado and Paris, ensuring she doesn't have to live without skiing or L'As ...

The steamer Lac La Belle, which was carrying passengers and cargo, sank in a storm in 1872. Eight people died when one of its lifeboats capsized. By Neil Vigdor and Ali Watkins For a century and a ...

The multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas industry has reshaped the landscape, the economy and the daily lives of the ...

Shell Beach, where generations have made a living from the marshes, is battling rising waters and environmental degradation. That doesn’t stop efforts to save it.

Nearly 150 years to the day after it was lost, shipwreck divers discovered the remains of the Lac La Belle, a passenger steamer that sank in a storm in Lake Michigan on Oct. 14, 1872. Shipwreck hunter ...

Researchers have discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer ship that sank in Lake Michigan in 1872, they announced Friday. Shipwreck World, a group that works to locate shipwrecks around the globe, ...