Calcasieu River

We asked you on Facebook what should replace the Capital One Tower when it's demolished. Here's what you had to say.

The EPA estimates that about 28% (or 80,000 miles) of rivers, lakes, and reservoirs are impaired due to pollution.

The Capital One Tower's days are numbered in Lake Charles. It's being reported that bids are out for an "implosion-style demolition".

The long drawn out process of getting a new I-10 bridge continues. Here's what the Governor had to say last night in Lake Charles...

If your guess is the Calcasieu River Bridge, that would be incorrect. Here is the actual name and other interesting facts about the bridge.

The Calcasieu Police Jury along with Homeland Security has notified us that both the Calcasieu River and English Bayou are now closed due to flooding.

The heavy rains we got last week here in Southwest and Central Louisiana has caused several lakes and rivers to rise really high and prompt fast action by authorities to close several boat launches.

Everyone knows the I-10 bridge isn't entirely safe. Its sufficiency rating was 9.9% in 2013. Guess what it is today? (Spoiler: It's worse.)

You have no doubt seen the green vegetation that is washing into Lake Charles from the Calcasieu River. It has been really thick on the west fork of the river. I was curious about what it was and how we can keep it from taking over.

The massive rains we started the year with have flood warnings still in effect for the Calcasieu, Sabine and Mermentau rivers.

Speckled Trout usually begin the move into the Calcasieu River System in early spring and gradually work their way north/ I have caught them in Lake Charles as early as late June and they are usually gone with the first tropical system that passes through in September or October. This year was very different.

  Long, long ago, back when all this was bayou and marsh, and pirogues passed for speedboats, the government men built a bridge over the Calcasieu from one end to the other and then, immediately, shut it down for repairs. It became a kind of demonstration project for bridge work, a place where contractors and engineers and transportation planners gathered each morning in hard hats, coffee cups in