Bourg News

The thunderstorms that swept driving rain and high winds through south Louisiana Thursday damaged buildings in Bourg, which residents said was the work of a tornado.

Once the presents are unwrapped and the meals enjoyed, many will end the Christmas season with a hefty pile of holiday garbage waiting on the curb for pickup.

Two young brothers who were burned on more than half their bodies in a house fire remained in critical condition Monday as Terrebonne Parish government workers dug up a gas line near the rubble of their home.

Just when they'd gotten back on their feet after losing their home and possessions to hurricanes Gustav and Ike, disaster struck again.

" A day in the life of Edison Dardar starts with a caterwaul of a shout. A yawlp.

Starting sometime next year, curbside recycling may come to Terrebonne, a new service the parish wants to offer after a positive response to its recycling centers that began taking paper, plastics and metals earlier this year.

Paula Neil was tending the counter at the American Marine hardware store Tuesday when her boss told her over the phone that a young man was rescued after driving into Bayou Little Caillou.

Three finalists for provost and vice president for academic affairs at Southeastern Louisiana University will be interviewed in November and December.

A Bayou Blue man who said his civil rights were violated by Lafourche sheriff's deputies during Hurricane Ike is looking to bring his $2.1 million lawsuit before the Lafourche Parish Council tonight in hopes of settling the matter, he said.

A crane collapse this afternoon at a Houma business left a 30-year-old worker dead and another in critical condition, according to the Terrebonne Sheriff's Office.

One worker was killed and another was seriously injured when a crane collapsed at an industrial building in south Louisiana.

Voters will head to the polls today to decide the fate of two Terrebonne property taxes.

Rock music blared and meat sizzled in the downtown Houma Courthouse Square Saturday during the first day of the YMCA's annual fund-raising festival.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:51 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:51 a.m. The following is a rundown of action taken by the Terrebonne Parish Council at its regular meeting Wednesday.

Voters across Terrebonne will head to the polls Saturday to decide whether to renew a parishwide property tax that helps pay for garbage collection and sewer service.

The former head of Terrebonne's landfills is accused of misdemeanor battery in connection with the alleged harassment of a 19-year-old woman employed by a parish contractor.

A Bourg woman attacked by a deputy's canine this summer alleges in a lawsuit that the deputy and Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Vernon Bourgeois failed to properly leash the animal, among other claims.

Bob and Ginger Bourg of Rayne are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Ms.

After 170 years fishing and crabbing in southern Louisiana's swamps and marshes, a group of American Indians repeatedly flooded by hurricanes says it is intent on moving from its ancestral island home.

Donald Bourg sat restless in his living room, a treadmill folded nearby. He used to run a mile on the machine before his shift with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office - two miles, on his days off.