Belle Chasse News

The Judge Seeber Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic today, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., for mechanical and electrical repairs.

Division B seat in District Court sought West Bank bureau Joy Cossich Lobrano, Plaquemines Parish first assistant district attorney, has announced her candidacy for the 25th Judicial District Court this fall.

Three members of the regional West Bank levee board have resigned in protest to a new state ethics law that they say goes too far in requiring disclosure of their personal finances.

Sorting through the remains of the Louisiana Legislature's regular session is uncertain stuff.

Next to the airport in Galliano is the Louisiana Plant Materials Center, run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Stuart J. Guey Jr., a Belle Chasse dentist, has announced he will run for the 4th District seat on Plaquemines Parish Council this fall.

A three-month regular legislative session ended Monday, with praise for the largest individual income tax break in state history overshadowed by harsh criticism of plans to double legislators' pay.

The full Legislature approved a bill on Sunday barring bingo halls that raise money for charities from adding new electronic video bingo machines that resemble slot machines.

BATON ROUGE A series of amendments to placate business owners enabled House approval of a bill allowing employees to bring their guns to work.

A National Rifle Association-backed bill requiring employers to let workers to bring guns onto company parking lots received approval Friday from the state House, putting it one step from final passage.

Louisiana college and university students and officials have prevailed against a proposal to allow concealed weapons on their campuses.

Just as south Louisiana's citrus growers are starting to recover from Hurricane Katrina, they have a new threat: A fatal citrus disease that has infected thousands of trees in Florida and is now in the Bayou ...

Louisiana health department officials are turning to the medical care on wheels concept to deliver mental health services to children in three hurricane-affected parishes where hospitals and clinics are few and ...

The House gave lopsided approval Wednesday to a bill that would allow chemical or physical castration as a punishment for some sex crimes.

LA: Campus weapons proposal pulled Source: Times-Picayune Posted on 06.10.08 by Mary Lou Seymour "One of the most controversial bills of the legislative session, to allow concealed weapons to be carried on the ...

BATON ROUGE -- The effort to allow the carrying of concealed weapons on Louisiana's college campuses was laid to rest today when the bill's author decided not to push it to a vote.

A bill to let the Port of New Orleans develop facilities in Plaquemines Parish with the approval of the Parish Council sailed out of a House committee Monday after its sponsor scrapped plans to consolidate port ...

Barges loaded with coal are seen in front of a Refinery in Belle Chasse, Louisiana.

BATON ROUGE Debate on a controversial bill that would allow the carrying of concealed weapons on college campuses has been delayed until Monday because of lengthy debate on other issues Wednesday.

BATON ROUGE - Two widely diverse major issues, things that few thought would even be issues in this legislative session, are scheduled to come to votes Wednesday in the House of Representatives.