MORGANZA, La. — Two people were killed inside of an ambulance after a head-on collision with a semi-truck in Pointe Coupee Parish late Tuesday morning. The Pointe Coupee Sheriff's Office says the ...

The section of La. Highway 1 that crosses the Morganza Spillway will be closed Sunday as officials prepare to open the structure. Louisiana State Police will close a portion of the highway between ...

MORGANZA, La. (WAFB) - Between the summer drought and now this brutal cold spot, crawfish farmers say they’re having trouble filling their traps. Many people are wondering, when and if the price will ...

MORGANZA, La. (WAFB) - It’s been an exhausting few days on the water for Sheriff Rene Thibodeaux and his team. “We’ve been looking, and we haven’t had any luck so far,” said Thibodeaux. He’s been with ...

A huge levee project years in the works to protect communities along Louisiana's central coast from storm surge will have to undergo another environmental review, potentially further increasing the ...

11 of the 125 floodgates have been opened and the Corps plans to open more. May 16, 2011 -- The Army Corps of Engineers opened two additional gates at the Mississippi River's Morganza Spillway today, ...

MORGAN CITY — Lee Dragna was born in 1973, the first time the Army Corps of Engineers opened the Morganza Spillway control structure to alleviate flooding on the Mississippi River. That's when the ...

MORGANZA, Louisiana (Reuters) - U.S. Army engineers on Saturday opened a key spillway to allow the swollen Mississippi River to flood thousands of homes and crops but spare New Orleans and Louisiana's ...