Belle Chasse News

As expected, the Notre Dame Pioneers and the Acadiana Wreckin' Rams were the only top three seeds from the Acadiana area when the brackets were released Sunday afternoon by the LHSAA.

Louisiana military bases were under tight watch Thursday after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

The Army Corps of Engineers may play a role in building a planned megaport near the mouth of the Mississippi River, potentially using mud dredged from the channel as construction material for the massive shipping platform.

The body of a boater missing in Bayou Segnette since late last week appeared in the Westwego Canal on Monday, according to authorities.

BELLE CHASSE - The Army Corps of Engineers on Friday celebrated a groundbreaking for a massive flood protection project for those living on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

A new, arts-based elementary charter school has been proposed for Federal City after military families expressed concerns about the closing of the day-care center on the base.

Sports fans and concert goers beware -- you might be in for a surprise when walking through the turnstiles of the Superdome or New Orleans Arena.

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The Belle Chasse bridge will be closed indefinitely due to a power failure. Michelle Tassin, director of Homeland Security Office of Emergency Preparedness for Plaquemines Parish, said the order was made by Parish President Billy Nungesser.

Under the threat of rain and a veil of security, the USS New York will leave the New Orleans area Tuesday morning after more than three years of construction at Avondale, feted by what organizers hope will be thousands of people gathered along the Mississippi River to see the ship off.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday said a research vessel helped rescue seven people from the sea.

An effort is underway to get residents to line the levees along the Mississippi River on Tuesday when the New York, built with steel from the World Trade Center's destruction in the 2001 terrorist attacks, leaves Avondale for the Big Apple.

While people in the New Orleans area are accustomed to occasionally seeing military fighters from the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, they might see a bit more aerial action Thursday.

NEW ORLEANS a ' The U.S. Army Corps of Engineersa TM New Orleans office awarded three more federal stimulus contracts totaling nearly $6.6 million as part of the Atchafalaya Basin and Mermentau River maintenance projects.

Plaquemines Parish will spray its citrus crop next week in an effort to stem the spread of c itrus greening disease , parish officials have announced.

When Hurricane Ike overwhelmed parts of Plaquemines Parish with water last year, the debate intensified over how to best protect the area from flooding.

Plaquemines Parish residents have a chance on Saturday to learn more about a controversial floodgate proposal that some say would put hundreds of homes at greater risk.

More than a year after he was indicted on charges of theft and malfeasance of office, William Roe, the former 25th Judicial District judge accused of pocketing money that should have been used to reimburse the Plaquemines Parish court for his legal seminars, goes to trial today in Belle Chasse.

Four Plaquemines Parish men have been arrested after police say they stole thousands of gallons of diesel fuel during the past few months, and heavily damaged expensive construction equipment.

Former Judge William Roe , an 18-year veteran of the 25th Judicial District Court in Plaquemines Parish, was convicted Tuesday of pocketing more than $6,000 he got from the state Supreme Court as reimbursement for judicial expenses, instead of depositing that money in a parish bank account.