Bayou Cane News

The Louisiana attorney general said the Bayou Cane Fire Protection District may not continue providing health benefits to its outgoing and ailing chief after his retirement.

The Little Apple has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. The Labor Department released new unemployment figures showing raises in all of the nation's largest cities.

The Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux area had the lowest unemployment rate among all metro areas in the country in March, and the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner corridor had the lowest unemployment rate among the nation's largest metro areas, according to a report released today by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Iowa City had the nation's lowest unemployment rate in March, the U.S. Labor Department reported Wednesday.

Honolulu's jobless rate was 5.8 percent in March, up from 5.4 percent in February, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics .

Terrebonne Parish school district maintenance worker John Mitchell surveys a flooded classroom Friday at Broadmoor Elementary in Houma.

Storms inundated streets throughout Houma and the parish this morning, dumping as much as 9 inches before daybreak in some areas and flooding numerous homes, meterologists and parish officials said.

Even as the recession deepened, Louisiana still gained 3,000 nonfarm jobs in December and Lafayette's unemployment rate was still among the lowest in the state, the state Workforce Commission reported ...

The unadjusted unemployment rate for the Lafayette metro area -- Lafayette and St.

Donald Hunter gathers sugar cane at the end of a row after it has been cut down by a harvester machine at Bayou Cane Co., Inc.