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Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, a wellhead hit by a tug boat is now spewing oil up 20 feet into the air near a Louisiana marsh area, officials said Tuesday.
Chris RobertsOil spewing from a busted wellhead is seen Tuesday in the distance off the Louisiana coast.
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Huey P. Long, the famous Louisiana populist, launched his political career by waging war on the big oil companies, especially what he called Standard Oil's "invisible empire." …
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For weeks, Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., has attacked BP and the Coast Guard for not having adequate plans and resources to battle the oil spill.
But interviews with more than two dozen state and federal officials and experts suggest that Louisiana, from the earliest days of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has often disregarded its own long-standing plans and experts in favor of large-scale proposals that many say probably would have had limited effectiveness and could have even hampered the response.
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Authorities are fearing a potential environmental disaster after an oil rig burning out of control in the Gulf of Mexico sank yesterday. Right now there's a five-mile slick of crude 40 miles off shore.
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APThis image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows response crews battling the
blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on Wednesday.The oil rig that exploded and caught fire off Louisiana has sunk, the Coast Guard said Thursday, while rescue crews continued the search for 11 missing workers.
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A porn star who has been flirting with the idea of running against Sen. David Vitter in this year's Republican Senate primary announced Thursday she will not enter the race.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that recently tested samples submitted by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals contain a new strain of norovirus, health officials announced Thursday.
The CDC name for the new strain, GII.4 New Orleans, includes "New Orleans" in the name because the first confirmed samples came from the Crescent City.
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It’s crawfish time in south Louisiana. Did you know that for many years, crawfish was not considered food outside Cajun country? In fact, people north of Alexandria were more likely to have a fish fry than a crawfish boil.Finally folks wised up. Now crawfish is enjoyed not only all over the state, but also all over the United States.
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A survey funded by Reader's Digest says that Louisiana drivers daily face some of the worst major highways in the nation. In addition to ranking our state's roads as overall worst in the country, the same survey's list of "the 7 Worst Roads in America" also does the state no favors...
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Ramblin' Man: Full-time RV Life « Reflections Of Louisiana...
I left the State Park Campground and headed east on U. S. Highway 90 Business, crossing the Mississippi River at New Orleans. About 5 miles later I picked up Interstate 10 heading east (not wanting to drive on U.S. Highway 90 in heavy New Orleans traffic) and about 6 miles later got on U.S. Highway 90 heading east.
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