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. 

When Alsen residents go outside to barbecue, they've got to fend off flies the size of bumblebees, Brenda Chaney told Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality staff.

Authorities have given a regional commission the go-ahead to drill test wells around downtown Baton Rouge in the region's ongoing fight to keep saltwater away from supplies of water used for drinking and industry.

Stories from the great flood of 2016 are officially entering America's historical record.

Louisiana politicians are digging in their heels as Mississippi pursues plans for a new reservoir on the Pearl River they fear could harm the Bayou State's ecology.

As the governor's office prepares to launch a new campaign promoting coastal restoration projects, environmental and financial professionals are asking the state to consider a new strategy to repair wetlands more quickly.

Computer modeling that indicated a tremendous amount of rain could fall on the Capital region two years ago this month seemed so out of line with anything that had happened before that forecasters dismissed the numbers rather than heed their warni…

Public school districts in East Baton Rouge and Lafayette parishes are among those qualifying for discounts on 142 cleaner-burning buses as part of a court settlement, state officials said Monday.

Can environmental activists get one of south Louisiana's most progressive small towns to ditch its plastic bags?

Baton Rouge has been awarded half a million dollars in federal money to buy a tire shredder after re-framing the equipment as one that would safeguard public health as well as address blight.

With school safety having become a major concern, Belaire, McKinley and Scotlandville high schools as well as Sherwood Middle School are all having their entry areas redone over the next week, in time for when kids return Aug. 9 from summer break.

Though it's still about the size of Delaware, the so-called "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is much smaller than researchers were expecting this year.