UPDATE: Causeway officials said the bridge reopened at 3:36 p.m. Original story: The northbound span of the Lake ...

NEW ORLEANS — A fisherman pulled a woman to safety Thursday morning after she allegedly jumped from the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway bridge. As our partners at The Times-Picayune report, Causeway ...

Imagine setting off at sunrise to drive across a bridge. For mile after mile, it runs low over calm waters until you realize something amazing: you can no longer see land. Pelicans soar overhead, and ...

METAIRIE, La. — Authorities are searching Lake Pontchartrain for a missing boater after a sailboat struck the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway early Sunday. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and ...

The U.S. 11 bridge over Lake Pontchartrain, which was closed to vehicles for several months earlier this year during a guardrail reconstruction project, is closed again, this time until perhaps the ...

The Causeway Commission is poised to formalize a contract for a new toll-collection system that could be in place on the 24-mile-long bridge by early 2013. The commission will meet Wednesday at 5 p.m.