Louisiana News

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $21,375,446 to the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to implement a project to restore and protect Louisiana's coastal wetlands.

Record flooding in the American Midwest will likely bring a record 'dead zone' to the Gulf of Mexico this summer, according to a new report.

Scientists said Wednesday that the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast is likely to be the largest since they began keeping records in 1985.

The researchers are predicting the area could measure a record 8,800 square miles, or roughly the size of New Jersey.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released its latest report of arrests. Arrested were: 24-year-old Amy Pohlman of Oak Ridge at 2:20 a.m. Sunday in Cape Girardeau County for driving while intoxicated and ...

Clothing added to 'recycling' mix Pike County's premier recycling center, the Pike Shop, quietly operates south of town.

Friday, July 11, 2008 at 6:15 p.m. Like many areas in the Tri-States, residents in Louisiana, Missouri are focused on clean-up and recovery.

The boat headed out in the dark of night from Chauvin, Louisiana. Overnight Captain Craig Lebeof steered the Research vessel pelican towards a series of water testing locations about 45 miles off the Louisiana ...

The head of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium will receive $50,000 and a gold medal for her research about the dead zone that forms every summer in the Gulf of Mexico.

Criminals vandalized fifteen burial stones in Pike County over the weekend. It happened at the Buffalo Jordan Cemetary just south of Louisiana, Missouri.

The flood ravaged areas of northwest Missouri are not letting recent events ruin the Fourth of July holiday.

Gov. Blunt Enacts Law to Improve Emergency Response ST. CHARLES, MO, , June 22, 2008 - Gov.

State wildlife and fisheries agents have closed waters to shrimping in the state's eastern- and western-most bays and lakes, bringing to an end a short season for many shrimpers.

Transportation is beginning to ease both over the Mississippi River and on it now that floodwaters are receding at a rapid pace.

The marine dead zone resulting from the Midwest flooding is expected to expand to over 10,000 square miles, according to researchers from the Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine ...

Laurel Canyon has exercised its magnetic pull on Robert Crais. Again. Crais, the best-selling mystery author, has never himself lived in the canyon of legendary music and failed hopes.

A makeshift sandbag levee holding back the Mississippi River failed early Saturday and authorities said part of the town was evacuated.Water began flowing under the 4-foot-high barrier around 4:30 a.m. An alarm ...

Scientists predict floodwaters that decimated river cities in the Midwest also will whack the Gulf of Mexico, pushing the so-called dead zone to a record size.

A streed is flooded s in Louisiana, Mo, on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. About 40 square blocks of the city are under water.

The water is still well above the banks of the upper Mississippi River, but residents of both flooded towns and those protected by levees and sandbags can see an ending: The river is cresting.