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 ...

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 ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources has granted the first of three state permits for the proposed expansion of an underground natural gas storage operation in the salt dome ...

Nara Crowley, a Lake Peigneur area resident who has been fighting the expansion, said she hopes state regulators will give the project a closer look in light of the ongoing issues with the large ...

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 ...

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 ...

The peaceful waters of Lake Peigneur in Louisiana became the scene of one of the most bizarre and destructive industrial accidents in history. Once a shallow body of water known for fishing and scenic ...

What started as routine drilling ended in a geological nightmare. Lake Peigneur collapsed into the ground, swallowing barges, land, and a massive drilling rig—leaving behind Louisiana’s deepest lake.