Before running to explore Louisiana's Atchafalaya River Basin, it is vital to learn about its wildlife population and how to stay safe. Get started here!

The Atchafalaya Basin is known for its stunning beauty, wildlife and vast expanse of coastal wetland. It's also the place where where Jeremy McCaa of Monroe set a "Naked and ...

Reporting from Maringouin, La. — When confronted with rapidly rising floodwaters, wild animals tend to react the same way humans do. They run for high ground. That unsurprising fact of nature ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards on Monday created a new Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement Task Force to help the state navigate the conflicting interests within the basin, including ...

As water gushes from the opened gates of the Morganza Spillway into the Atchafalaya Basin — and the Atchafalaya River laps over its own banks — wildlife are fleeing the expanding flooded areas ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (CN) — Environmental groups sued the Corps of Engineers in federal court Wednesday over the approval of a coastal project in the Atchafalaya Basin they say will destroy wetlands, ...

A liquified propane gas transportation pipeline ruptured on Tuesday in the Atchafalaya Basin. Skip to content. WGNO. New Orleans 69 ...

A stock image of the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge in Louisiana, a pair bridges stretching over the Atchafalaya Basin, where the Atchafalaya River and the Gulf of Mexico converge.

A Tangipahoa Parish sex offender who was sought for violating the terms of his sex offender registry was found by U.S. Marshals in a makeshift shelter deep in the swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin.

Louisiana’s Atchafalaya swamp is a critical floodway for the Mississippi River, ... As we quietly drift through the Atchafalaya basin swamp, ... This swamp is home to 300 species of wildlife.

The Atchafalaya Basin is known for its stunning beauty, wildlife and vast expanse of coastal wetland. It's also the place where where Jeremy McCaa of Monroe set a "Naked and ...