Twelve new rental cabins were unveiled Thursday (Oct. 27) at Bayou Segnette State Park near Westwego, to replace ones destroyed during Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana spent $10.6 million building the ...

Homes and cabins on Lake Shamineau near Motley are threatened by rising lake waters. Buildings, boat lifts and docks have sustained damage, and some properties have been abandoned.

Editor's note: The writer and her family spent three summers exploring state, national and provincial parks, traveling by minivan from Louisiana to Alaska, to Nova Scotia, and all along the ...