With Louisiana’s highway and bridge needs topping $12 billion, a transportation advocacy group said Monday that the state’s next governor should back an increase in the gasoline tax to shrink the backlog, fill potholes and ease traffic ...
The leak dates to Hurricane Ivan in 2004, when storm-whipped waves in the Gulf triggered an underwater mudslide that toppled a Taylor Energy-owned oil platform and buried a cluster of its wells under mounds of sediment. Oil is still leaking at the site ...
Pending court approval, settlement money will be used to resolve the Clean Water Act penalties; resolve natural resources damage claims; settle economic claims; and resolve economic damage claims of local governments ...
About 76 more jobs will be claimed before the year's end, according to announcement issued this week on plans to close an oil and gas equipment plant in Broussard ...
Fallout from the oil spill that left Gulf Coast beaches smeared with gooey tar balls and scared away visitors in 2010 is being credited, oddly, with something no one imagined back then: An increase in tourism in the region ...
While the members of this diverse group of Acadiana women can’t all say they were firsts, each of them has contributed to our community in ways too countless to capture in 500-word profiles ...