The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation publishes maps outlining the salinity of the basin's water bodies every two weeks. ... at Crossover #2 of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway near the North ...

Lake Pontchartrain environmentalists are monitoring the body of water after the Bonnet Carre Spillway was opened again due to the swollen Mississippi River. Skip to content NOWCAST WDSU News at 6am ...

The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation has rebranded as Pontchartrain Conservancy. Its new website, logo and tagline aims to communicate the nonprofit environmental sustainability organization’s ...

Nine people were rescued from Lake Pontchartrain late Sunday night after their boat sank about nine miles south of the Mandeville lakefront, authorities said. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's ...

fish tracks. An interactive Website created by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries allows users to track fish in Lake Pontchartrain that have been outfitted with telemetry tags.

NEW ORLEANS — Water from the swollen Mississippi River is rushing through the Bonnet Carre Spillway toward Lake Pontchartrain at a rate of about 1.5 million gallons per second.

NEW ORLEANS — Parts of Lake Pontchartrain in the New Orleans area are now lime green. “The lake’s pretty ripe,” said Lake Pontchartrain Causeway GM Carlton Dufrechou. “We’ve got a lot ...

Because of the salinity in the water, experts say floating hyacinth won’t last long in Lake Pontchartrain and will likely be gone by next week. Click here to report a typo.

Tolls to travel the southbound lanes of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway were raised in 2017 to pay for the safety upgrades. Associated Press photo. But the cost of traveling the 24-mile bridge that ...

Ty Hibbs has been seeing few other boats fishing along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. (Photo by Todd Masson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) (Todd Masson) To the uninitiated, Lake ...