VENICE, La. – Three people were struck by lightning in Louisiana on Friday, while parts of New Orleans were flooded. Patrick ...

For barge operators on America’s inland waterways system, there’s never a dull moment. The past 12 months have been no ...

The deepest part of the Mississippi is near Algiers Point in New Orleans where it’s about 200 feet deep. The average width of the river is one mile, but it can range from 20 to 30 feet wide at ...

Way back in 1999, Bisso Towboat Co. put the first azimuthing-sterndrive (ASD) tugboat into service on the Lower Mississippi ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in ...

The Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office is responding to a scene off the coast in Venice. Deputies say three people were struck by lightning on a boat. Their conditions are labeled by deputies as mild ...

For years I had been hearing about a couple of guys, who in the early 1970s, boated from Cadillac to New Orleans.

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been ...

Crews had collected more than 60,700 gallons of oily product through Friday, enough to fill two and a half sizeable backyard ...

CELINA - Some of west central Ohio's earliest settlers arrived in the new country in September 1834 in the Bark Everhard ship ...

For fans of Louisiana's flavorful cuisine, don't miss out on this region of the state full of tranquil marshes and serving up ...