Fighting to stay afloat on what looks like a sea of chocolate milk, desperation begins to define a Tuesday morning in Thibodaux. My boat shakes uncontrollably, and I feel like a newborn deer learning ...

DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegalese authorities intercepted 112 migrants aboard a long wooden fishing boat known as a pirogue off the coast of Dakar on Tuesday as they attempted to reach Europe via a perilous ...

As indigenous to the bayou country as Mardi Gras are pirogues (canoes dug out of cypress logs). Louisiana’s first mode of transportation, pirogues are still used by Cajun and Baratarian trappers to ...

When Will Walsten was a teenager in the early 1970s, attendance at the Bayou Liberty Pirogue Races meant hopping into a boat and paddling with all his might against the coffee-colored current. It also ...

The Bayou Terrebonne Boucherie Festival, a free event featuring live music, food and a Cajun-themed competition, takes place Saturday, March 22. A highlight of the festival is the Cajun Cup, where ...

Similar to a canoe, the pirogue was first used by Native Americans in the swamps and marshes of Louisiana, before it was refined by French explorers, hunters and settlers. The pirogue was dug out of a ...