NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A group of conservation organizations fighting Louisiana’s coastal erosion problems is taking their message to the Super Bowl.

Restore the Mississippi River Delta is a coalition made up of five environmental groups — the Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Trying to bolster Louisiana’s sizable tourism industry, Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser is reaching out to international visitors, seeking private investment in state parks and proposing the construction of a resort on Lake Pontchartrain.

Nungesser is Louisiana’s chief ...

GRETNA, La. (AP) — A 28-year-old Louisiana woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for causing a fatal crash on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in 2017.

New Orleans news outlets report that Olivia Matte of Covington was sentenced Thursday by state District Judge Glenn ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana coroner’s office says a woman who went missing this summer while sailing on a lake accidentally drowned.

News outlets report the Thursday announcement by the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office has ruled out foul play in the death of 31-year-old Sadie Thibodeaux ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard is searching the big brackish lake that borders New Orleans for the owner of an overturned boat.

A news release says the search began Wednesday night after Jefferson Parish authorities reported a white-hulled vessel capsized about a quarter-mile (0.4 ...

NEW IBERIA, La. (AP) — Authorities say the bodies of two boaters have been recovered in separate Louisiana waterways.

News outlets report that the bodies of 58-year-old Leonard Norbert of New Iberia and 66-year-old Milton B. Gomez of Ponchatoula were recovered Saturday.

Iberia Parish ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard says crews have rescued a 43-year-old man and are looking for a 32-year-old woman missing in the big brackish lake that borders New Orleans.

A news release says Michael Lee Farley was found about 7 a.m. Monday, after an all-night search of Lake ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police say a motorcyclist has fallen off a bridge and died.

Police tell news outlets in a statement that officers were called out Sunday night about a man who fell from the Claiborne Bridge and landed on the ground below. He was driving a motorcycle on the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The 2018 Louisiana spring inshore shrimp season will close Wednesday in an area near the Mississippi-Louisiana state line westward.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the season ends at 6 p.m. June 27 from the state line westward to the western ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former toll collector in Louisiana has pleaded guilty to stealing under $750 in tolls during one month last year.

NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune cites an audit made public ...

HAUGHTON, La. (AP) — The Latest on severe weather moving through Louisiana (all times local):

11:20 a.m.

Louisiana State Police say they’ve closed the on-ramp of Interstate 55 southbound near Pontchatoula, Louisiana, after water began to pool on the highway in the area.

Trooper ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A flood control structure upriver from New Orleans will likely be opened Thursday to keep pressure off the levee system that protects the city, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said.

Col. Mike Clancy, commander of the Corps’ New Orleans district, told reporters ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials say marsh restoration is complete at Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, and the refuge is now open to hunting outside the levee system.

The restoration project used sediment pumped from Lake Pontchartrain to create brackish marsh in what had been open ...

LACOMBE, La. (AP) — Federal crews are burning a small part of a national wildlife refuge north of New Orleans to kill invasive plants.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday began burning about 60 acres (24 hectares) of marsh in the

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two people — the driver of an automobile and a would-be rescuer — died after the car plunged into water at a restaurant overlooking Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain.

The accident happened Tuesday night in New Orleans. The driver died after being pulled from the submerged ...

KENNER, La. (AP) — Authorities have found the body of a man who was killed during an explosion on an oil and gas platform in Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said a helicopter spotted the body of 44-year-old Timothy Morrison on Friday afternoon. He said ...

COVINGTON, La. (AP) — The trial of a Louisiana woman facing a DWI charge from an incident that occurred several months before she was accused of causing a fatal crash while driving drunk on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway has been continued until Dec. 19.

Olivia Matte was scheduled for ...

SLIDELL, La. (AP) — A 68-year-old Louisiana man has been cited for illegally taking crabs from a trap in Lake Pontchartrain.

Sgt. Mike Garrity, a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agent, cited Ernest Schmolke, of Slidell, for illegal removal of crab trap contents ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities are searching one end of the huge lake north of New Orleans after a report of a man in the water, and have found an overturned boat.

The Coast Guard says it got a report shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday about a man without a life vest in Lake Pontchartrain ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s spring inshore shrimp season will close at 6 p.m. Friday.

The closure affects the Louisiana/Mississippi state line westward to the eastern shore of the Mississippi River and from Freshwater Bayou canal westward to the Louisiana/Texas state line except ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Starting Saturday, commuters will pay higher tolls to cross the bridge linking the north and south shores of Lake Pontchartrain.

The increase will go from $2 to $3 for southbound drivers on the Causeway with toll tags and from $3 to $5 for customers who pay with cash. ...

MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) — The St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office says they’ve identified a teenager who drowned in Lake Pontchartrain.

News outlets report that 15-year-old Chandler Byrd has been identified by the coroner’s office Sunday after he drowned the previous day.

The city of ...

COVINGTON, La. (AP) — A district attorney wants to revoke or raise the bond of a Covington woman accused of causing a fatal accident while driving drunk on a bridge connecting the north and south shores of Lake Pontchartrain.

Olivia Matte posted $126,000 bond March 24 in Jefferson Parish ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a possible vehicle in Lake Pontchartrain after a crash involving multiple vehicles on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge.

The Coast Guard said in a statement its crews found no evidence that a vehicle had plunged into the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Camellia gardens will be on display on both shores of Lake Pontchartrain the weekend of Feb. 18.

On Saturday the 18th, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service holds an annual open house at the Lacombe headquarters for its

METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Authorities say a New Orleans man waited hours before telling authorities he crashed a minivan into a lake with his landlord inside.

News outlets report 25-year-old Miguel McCarty faces vehicular homicide and other charges in 52-year-old Regina Williams’ ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The fall white-shrimp season is about to close for most waters in Louisiana.

NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports (http://bit.ly/2hxI2FX ) the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced most inshore waters will be closed ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Investigators have pulled a pickup truck from Lake Pontchartrain, and the body of one man was inside.

The Coast Guard received a report from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office at 3:45 a.m. Sunday of debris and a damaged guardrail. ...

COVINGTON, La. (AP) — The St. Tammany Parish Council has approved a Lake Pontchartrain Causeway bond issue that would pay for $103 million in safety improvements and require a toll increase to pay off the debt.

The funding would allow the Causeway to beef-up railings on the southbound span ...

MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) — The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office has recovered the body of a man from Lake Pontchartrain.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, in a news release, said the body of 67-year-old George A. charrier, of Pontchatoula, was pulled from the lake about ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A crane on a barge lifted the wreckage of a small sightseeing plane from a lake near New Orleans on Tuesday, the bodies of the pilot and a passenger still in the cabin, authorities said.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on New Orleans plane crash (all times local):

8:35 a.m.

A small plane that crash into Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana is now out of the water and sitting on a barge.

Recovery workers used a crane to lift the plane onto the barge Tuesday morning. ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Equipment is being moved into place to retrieve the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into Lake Pontchartrain just north of the New Orleans Lakefront Airport.

The crash site is about 1,000 yards west of the airport’s north-south runway.

Fire department ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A small plane that crashed in Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans had been chartered by a couple taking an aerial tour of the city when it hit a rainstorm and went down, an airport director said Monday.

A woman survived Friday night’s crash but two men, the pilot and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into Friday night’s crash of an airplane into Lake Pontchartrain at New Orleans (all times local):

3:15 p.m.

Authorities say a small plane that crashed in Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans had been chartered by a couple taking an ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Divers found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into the huge, mud-bottomed lake that forms New Orleans’ northern shore, but two men remained missing Sunday, the New Orleans Fire Department said.

There should be more information about them on Monday, when the ...