On November 20, 1980, Lake Peigneur in Louisiana began doing the impossible — it started draining away. An oil drilling rig ...

LAKE PEIGNEUR, La. (KLFY) — 40 years ago, a catastrophe like no other occurred in Acadiana. The largest manmade whirlpool and tallest waterfall in the state were created when an oil drill and salt ...

Some stories — even big stories — are sometimes knocked from the front page by even bigger stories. That's where the podcast "Eclipsed" comes in. When Campside Media created the history podcast, the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Louisiana is strongly associated with water as it’s along the Gulf of Mexico and is home to the mouth of the Mississippi River. There are many lakes and rivers in ...

The Miraculous Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: The Real True Story of a Lake That Disappeared by Allan Wolf and Jose Pimienta is a new nonfiction middle grade graphic novel. It tells the story of "the ...

Tensions appear to have cooled between some Lake Peigneur residents and the company that has massive natural gas storage caverns in scoured out salt domes under the Iberia Parish lake. Jefferson ...