Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has appointed a new leader charged with preserving what's left of the state's rapidly disappearing coast. Michael Hare takes over as executive director of the Coastal ...

The new coastal protection chairman is a familiar face in Terrebonne, and he plans to use breakwater rocks to defend Louisiana's coast. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry appointed former Terrebonne Parish ...

ROCKAWAY BEACH WAS BASICALLY. DESTROYED BY HURRICANE SANDY. WE HAD ABOUT NINE FEET OF WATER IN MY PARENTS BASEMENT, AND MY NEIGHBORS JUST LOOKED LIKE THEY’VE BEEN THROUGH A WAR. I STOOD THERE AND I ...

After years of being locked in a standstill, planners of the Coastal Texas Project announced the approval of two engineering design contracts.

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) reported at its May 2025 board meeting that it currently has 106 active projects underway across the coast, with a focus on hurricane ...

This story is contributed by the Times-Picayune, a member of LMA’s Covering Climate Collaborative, a partnership focused on covering the impacts of climate change at the local level. In just six years ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Gov. Jeff Landry named Michael H. Hare as the new executive director of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Friday morning. According to the ...

Protections would be in place from Mendocino County down to San Luis Obispo County. United States Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) wrote and introduced the Central Coast of California Conservation Act of ...

The U.S. House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would authorize federal agencies to begin planning for an estimated $31 billion coastal barrier project that would affect hundreds of ...

A worker pumps water out of a flooded street in the Houston area after Hurricane Harvey caused massive flooding on Aug. 26, 2017. The district charged with overseeing the construction of a massive set ...

There’s still a lot of mixed messaging around whether Louisiana will move forward with a nearly $3 billion project that environmental advocates and experts have said is essential to repairing the ...

TER HEIJDE, The Netherlands — With a surfboard strapped to his feet and the reins of a giant kite in his hands, Daan Vijverberg skimmed over whitecaps on the Netherlands’ windy south coast. Nearby, ...