Atchafalaya Basin

Lower than average water levels are causing adverse effects on the crawfish season.

Work on the Atchfalaya Basin and an event downtown mean possible traffic tie-ups.

Police say he fell off his boat without a life vest.

A pair of camp burglars now behind bars, one of them accused of holding his ex-wife against her will. Deputies in St. Martin Parish say Tracey Burgess and Steven Thibodeaux were responsible for robbing 13 camps in the Atchafalaya Basin.

A man who disappeared Sunday while out on his air boat is safe and sound.

You have a chance to participate and provide suggestions that will improve and enhance water quality in the Atchafalaya Basin Region.

A four mile stretch of the Atchafalaya Basin has been reopened to boat traffic.

Lower revised flood water crests for the Atchafalaya Basin mean St. Landry Parish residents will not have to evacuate.

The rising flood waters along the Mississippi and in the Atchafalaya Basin is pushing wildlife out of their normal habitats to higher ground.

It began with one, and now a total of nine of 125 bays of the Morganza Spillway are open with the goal of diverting an increasing amount of Mississippi River water from the Baton Rouge and New Orleans areas.

The opening of the Morganza Spillway could mean good news for crawfishermen who harvest in the Atchafalaya Basin.