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 ...

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.

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 ...