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 ...

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 ...

Westwego and Jefferson Parish officials launched Gator Town last May, about a year after it was first approved by the Westwego City Council. The levee wall in front of the swamp tour's dock now ...

A man was bitten Wednesday morning by an alligator while working on the grounds of Bayou Segnette State Park, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office reported. Col. John Fortunate said the man was a ...

WESTWEGO, La. — The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said it is assisting with an incident at Bayou Segnette State Park in Westwego Thursday morning. Deputies said the sheriff's office is assisting ...