On a bright March day, Mary Maggiore led a group of mostly out-of-state tourists through the cypress swamp at Wetland Trace in Jean Lafitte, offering up facts about the town’s pirate namesake and the ...

It would serve to not only rebuild wetlands that have been disappearing for a century, but also slow storm surge. But there ...

There's a channel leading to Barataria Bay menaced by oil. Local and state leaders are in a fight with the feds over a plan to protect it. Greg Bourgeois has dried oil on his driveway and a puddle of ...

The Louisiana Highway 45 bridge and roadway project in Jefferson Parish is restoring a critical transportation link between Barataria and Lafitte, following permanent damage from Hurricane Ida. The ...

Six homes in Barataria were destroyed Thursday morning in a fire that might have been touched off by golf cart's battery short-circuiting. Hurricane Ida had knocked out the bridge that leads to the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A huge step in the right direction for the people of Barataria. A new bridge opened Thursday, replacing the storm-mangled Kerner Swing Bridge, the one road back to the mainland.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Groups pushing for the largest coastal restoration project ever undertaken in Louisiana hope that a new legal maneuver will drive that project forward. While some worry about ...

BARATARIA BAY, La. – BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) — The sand dunes and islands of Barataria Bay, a huge expanse of water and marsh on Louisiana's coast, have become the latest casualty of the environmental ...

Barataria Preserve Was Damaged by Hurricane Ida. Five Years Later, Repairs Have Begun On a bright March day, Mary Maggiore led a group of mostly out-of-state tourists through the cypress swamp at ...