A placid, roughly 1,000-acre lake near New Iberia, Peigneur was a haven for fishermen and a scenic backdrop to Rip Van Winkle Gardens, a 20-acre paradise of tropical plants developed by John Lyle ...

AGL’s efforts to expand its operation at Lake Peigneur have been on hold since 2006, when then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco sparked a lawsuit by calling for an extensive environmental study.

The Lake Peigneur drilling disaster saw an oversight result in a dramatic reshaping of the Louisiana landscape. The resulting sinkhole swallowed up a drilling platform, several barges, trees, and ...

Lake Peigneur, the site of one of the state’s most spectacular industrial disasters in 1980, kept coming up in my conversations with residents of Bayou Corne, the Cajun community in south ...

The morning of November 21, 1980, started as an unremarkable one on Lake Peigneur, Louisiana. Birds flew overheadl and barges bobbed on the surface. Fishermen were getting on with their day.

Lake Peigneur was a small lake in southern Louisiana with a small canal to the Gulf of Mexico, but had little use for anything other than trout fishing. Underneath this lake, was a huge active ...

They also said unexplained bubbling has been documented at Lake Peigneur in recent years. Strange bubbling had been reported in the Bayou Corne area before the sinkhole developed there.

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 ...

Please support bills by state Sen. Fred H. Mills to protect the 4,000 residents living within a one-mile radius of the lake from the possibility of another disaster like the one that happened in ...