Scouts signing up for first Atchafalaya Swamp adventure PORT BARRE – Boy Scouts in the Evangeline Area District, as well as those from around the nation, will be able to experience high adventure kayaking in the Atchafalaya Basin beginning this summer.
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Budget issues challenge for LSU, other higher ed institutions MORGAN CITY — Higher education in Louisiana is continuing to face serious budgetary challenges, said William Jenkins, interim LSU system president and chancellor.
Funding for higher education is be...
Marine Shale clean-up on June completion schedule AMELIA — Work to finish cleaning up the former Marine Shale Processors site just outside of Amelia, which began in February, is ongoing with June 26 as the projected completion date of the cleanup,...
Legislative focus back on $24.7 billion budget By John Maginnis
and Jeremy Alford
LaPolitics.com
BATON ROUGE — With Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tax repeal package and those like it apparently immobile and parked for the session, lawmakers are slowly ...
Unbelted teen driver dies after vehicle hits tree BASTROP – A Bastrop girl died when the vehicle she was driving hit a tree late Monday night.
State Police said Tori Johnson, 16, was driving south on Louisiana 830-4 when she lost control of the v...
UL-Monroe AD resigns MONROE – University of Louisiana at Monroe athletic director Bobby Staub is resigning after eight years in the post.
Neither he nor university President Nick Bruno had much to say about Staub’s dec...
Fishing piers survive -- for now ABBEVILLE – A group of Vermilion Parish fishermen have rallied to save the five piers along La. 82.
Last week at a committee meeting, the jury voted to remove the fishing piers because it was too c...
St. Martin coroner resigns ST. MARTINVILLE – Dr. Daniel Wiltz has resigned his elective office as parish coroner, effective April 2, and Parish Council is expected to appoint Dr. Warren Degatur interim coroner.
A special ele...
Judge orders security reimposed for Vermilion courthouse ABBEVILLE – Grand jurors are concerned about lack of security at the Vermilion Parish Court House and a court has ordered the situation changed.
At the start of the year, the Vermilion Parish Polic...
Teacher charged with prohibited sexual contacty with student MOSS BLUFF – A teacher at Sam Houston High School is accused of having inappropriate contact with a female student.
State Troopers said they were tipped off by the girl’s parents and the girl confi...
Traffic stop yields 44 pounds of pot SULPHUR – A Florida man stopped for alleged traffic violations on Interstate 10 had more than 40 pounds of pot in his pickup.
State Police said Robert Marlow, 55, of Leesburg, Fla. was pulled over...
Road closure will end access to Tangipahoa River landing AMITE -- A two-tenths mile section of road leading from Old Covington Highway to Carpenter’s Landing on the Tangipahoa River east of Hammond will be closed to the public.
Action came Monday, April ...