A shoreline protection project aims to prevent the Tchefuncte River Lighthouse from toppling during a surge event ...

Bob McKeand works to put together a Fresnel lighthouse lens Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002, at the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum in Madisonville.

MADISONVILLE, La. (WVUE) - Since 1837, a lighthouse has stood at the mouth of the Tchefuncte River in Madisonville, where the river spills into Lake Pontchartrain. Today, however, the lighthouse ...

NEW ORLEANS — Pontchartrain Conservancy is hosting the second annual Dive into Discovery remotely operated vehicle (ROV) expo ...

Pontchartrain Conservancy Executive Director Kristi Trail is pictured at the New Canal Lighthouse along Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans on Thursday, September 19, 2024.

Norvell is credited with rescuing more than 200 people in Lake Pontchartrain when lighthouse keepers were also first responders. “If they saw an incident, they had to sound the alarm, notify ...

For more than 150 years, these old lighthouses have marked the entrances to rivers and ports across coastal Louisiana. But most of the old structures have fallen victim to hurricanes, sinking land ...

The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum has been at work restoring the Lighthouse Keeper s Cottage, photographed Wednesday, March 25, 2015, on the museum grounds in Madisonville.