ST. MARTINVILLE — A testy trial over the Bayou Bridge pipeline began Tuesday with an assertion that the plaintiff's share of the land at the center of the dispute is worth only $1.11.

Officials are inviting the public to learn and ask questions about the Comite River Diversion Canal.

Sen. Bill Cassidy is proposing the nation rent out storage space in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which includes facilities in Louisiana.

Louisiana's threatened whooping crane population has grown by 12.

Engineers in charge of building the Comite River Diversion Canal have adopted an aggressive timetable, setting a completion date for three hurricane seasons from now.

Horse manure helped bring down a popular Louisiana stable.

Following through on a promise made at the most recent state of the parish address, the administration of Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome is developing a community disaster recovery plan.

The chairman of the local groundwater commission says he isn't going to let "absurd" state laws prevent Ascension Parish from having a say in managing the area's main aquifer.

A pair of Congressional bills are in the works that could dramatically change the way Louisiana receives coastal protection funding from the oil and gas industry.

There's a federal judge in Washington D.C. who's going to be hearing a lot about hybrid bear heads and interbreeding.

Not so long ago, the Pelican State lost its namesake bird.

State officials have killed a much-criticized proposal to rebuild a long-unused airstrip on Elmer's Island near Grand Isle.

Activists climbed onto a construction crane and chained themselves to heavy equipment Wednesday seeking to block construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline again.

Entergy has received preliminary approval to operate its nuclear plant near St. Francisville for another two decades, though federal agencies are investigating a power-demand emergency in which two of Entergy's nuclear facilities were down.

The capital area takes its drinking water so much for granted that some residents would rather leave a running hose in a leaky pool than repair the crack, would prefer to turn their sprinklers on a brick house to cool the masonry instead of turnin…

GRETNA — A panel of Louisiana appeals judges is considering whether the state's Department of Natural Resources did an adequate job vetting Bayou Bridge when pipeline builders proposed to put the terminal in St. James.

The maps that dictate how much south Louisianans pay for flood insurance could be redrawn, though Baton Rouge-area leaders have their doubts.

Central police and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are looking for the man who left a small, dead alligator at a Central car wash on Monday morning.

Bayou Bridge may take a bit longer to finish after all.

Landowners fighting Bayou Bridge have fired back at the pipeline builders and challenged whether oil companies may seize private land generally, and whether Bayou Bridge in particular followed the law.

Six South Louisiana parishes have been awarded a combined $41 million in federal grant money for flood resilience projects.

ST. MARTINVILLE — The builders of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline agreed Monday to stay off some disputed land in St. Martin Parish, but say the decision will not hinder the effort to complete work by October. Environmentalists, meanwhile, say the day's…

Baton Rouge water experts will help Houston draw up plans to make the city more resilient to floods as residents there continue to recover from last year's Hurricane Harvey.

Louisiana officials declared an emergency, called out the National Guard, shuttered schools and closed courthouses as Tropical Storm Gordon drew near, but the weather system bucked east and left the Pelican State unscathed.

 East Baton Rouge Parish has hired a forensic engineer as it considers whether to sue Iberville Parish over its plan to erect inflatable temporary dams along Bayou Manchac, which separates the parishes.