Traffic was backed up for hours on the Bonnet Carré Spillway after an 18-wheeler caught fire on the bridge Wednesday morning.

NEW ORLEANS — A vehicle fire is causing major delays on the Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge Wednesday night near mile marker 217 ...

A semi-truck that caught on fire Tuesday night on Interstate 10 East over the Bonnet Carré Spillway remains on the Spillway ...

NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO) — A lane on the Bonnet Carré Spillway has been closed following an overnight vehicle fire. According to ...

Traffic was backed up for miles during rush-hour traffic Wednesday as officials worked to remove the burned trailer.

NEW ORLEANS — Could the Bonnet Carré Spillway be opened for the second time in a single year? It seems the answer to that is a definite maybe. The Bonnet Carré Spillway, is opened to relieve ...

The Corps will open the spillway to keep the volume of Mississippi River flows at New Orleans from exceeding 1.25 million cubic feet per second, which current projections indicate will occur on ...

For the first time in history, the Bonnet Carre Spillway may be needed twice in one year to keep a rising Mississippi River in check. Months after the spillway was opened in back-to-back years for ...

Above: Extracting a needle--very carefully--from the Bonnet Carré Spillway during its opening on January 10, 2016. Each of the 350 concrete bays holds 20 needles. Image credit: Bob Henson. At 10 ...

The answer in the tri-parish area is the Bonnet Carre Spillway, which is located in the northwest section of St. Charles Parish. The spillway has 7,623 acres for recreational use and more than 400,000 ...

Dozens of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel spent Saturday in preparation mode, testing cranes and inspecting the Bonnet Carré Spillway.Sunday’s opening was the first time in nearly five ...