Each episode of NBC's The Americas focuses on a specific region of the American supercontinent. For an hour, narrator Tom Hanks takes us up close and personal with natural stories happening in faraway ...

Louisiana's gator hunters return to the Atchafalaya Basin with new challenges as landowners now demand bigger catches to secure future hunting rights.

Dean Wilson, founder of the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, in the basin in October, 2024 with a butterfly on his hand (Sabrina Canfield/Courthouse News) A man stands with his hand outstretched to show a ...

Lafourche Parish has officially been added to the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area, bringing its boundaries in line with the historical definition of the Atchafalaya Basin, the picturesque swamp ...

The Atchafalaya Basin (dark green in this satellite image, with the Atchafalaya River running through its center) is almost a million acres of bottomland woods and swamp. DeWitt Braud, LSU/USGS Nat.

WASHINGTON – Though much legislation is being held up by partisan bickering during the last month of a lame duck Congress, both parties can agree on including Lafourche Parish in the 14-parish ...