The state has rejected a developer’s proposal to fill in a section of Lake Pontchartrain to build multimillion-dollar mansions along the Mandeville Lakefront, a plan that generated vocal opposition ...

A Cessna 172 single-engine airplane broke apart on impact and killed the two pilots aboard when it crashed into Lake ...

NEW ORLEANS — There are floating islands of vegetation in the middle of Lake Pontchartrain just off the Causeway Bridge. In some areas, you can spot them as far as the eye can see. “I think it’s just ...

What Lake Pontchartrain once was 66 years ago was written about 36 years ago by the esteemed environmentalist Bob Marshall, who described former New Orleans City Park leader Bob Becker "mourning" the ...