ARTICLES BY MARY FOSTER

Costumes, beads give way to ashes in New Orleans

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Chef backs loan program to help farms

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS AGO

High water makes Mississippi dangerous to navigate

BATON ROUGE, La. - Travis Morace has been running boats on the Mississippi for two decades, witnessing all of the mighty river's many moods. He's seen it calm and smooth as a newly paved road and endured jarring rides filled with treacherous twists and bumps.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Floodgate opens in Bayou country

MORGANZA, La. - Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the Cajun countryside, threatening to slowly submerge the land under water up to 25 feet deep.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Residents rid grief on Katrina anniversary

CHALMETTE, La. - Hundreds of mourners dropped notes, cards and letters - many of them stained with tears - into a steel-gray casket on Saturday in a symbolic burial of Hurricane Katrina.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO