Boutte News

Mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus were found near Magnolia Ridge Road in Boutte in mosquito samples collected June 20, according to St.

For months, Reggie Isaac sweated over his unfinished house in Boutte. Every morning before leaving for his job as an air conditioning maintenance worker at Doctors Hospital in Metairie, Isaac, who was displaced ...

After years of planning and postponements because of financial constraints, Gov.

Just in time for hurricane season, transportation officials will open a road extension in St.

Two St. Charles Parish men are in jail after being arrested Tuesday in connection with sexually assaulting a minor in two separate incidents.

Despite a life surrounded by drugs, John Allen Dantin managed to beat his addition to crack cocaine and fervently dedicated his life to God in 1996.

' Just in time for the 2008 hurricane season, Barriere Construction Co. of New Orleans is wrapping up a $3.4 million asphalt milling and overlay contract for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and ...

“It's amazing that there weren't more victims as a result of this.”

Two 18-year-old men have been booked with attempted murder in connection with a nightclub shooting in Hahnville Saturday. via NOLA.com

Scarlet F. Applegate, age 27 of 3021 Bayou Road, St. Bernard, LA Was issued a summons for Theft under $300.00 by shoplifting merchandise from Wal-Mart on Natchez Anthony J. Geis, age 30 of 6918 Madewood, ... via NOLA.com

Recorded live - and I do mean live, with no rehearsals and no overdubs - "From Now On," the new release from Cajun master fiddler Michael Doucet possesses a passionate immediacy. via News-Star

“You councilmen are going to have to make a decision. Do we want to build a pumping station and that's going to sit there for six years, and after six years we may not be able to use it except in a major storm?”

Citing the slow pace of levee construction on the west bank, St. Charles Parish President V.J. St. via NOLA.com

“I'm going to do an Annie Lennox tune for y'all. It's not what you think.”

Posted by Brett Anderson, staff writer, Times-Picayune May 02, 2008 4:14PM During his set in the Jazz Tent, singer John Boutte implored the audience to "break the rules. via NOLA.com

Posted by Keith Spera, Music writer, The Times-Picayune May 01, 2008 5:00PM Categories: Jazzfest Terence Blanchard CROWD PLEASERS How to close out today is the toughest choice of the weekend. via Times-Picayune

“She came looking for poke salad”

Now past the time of "Katrina recovery," Camp Living Waters on the North shore of Lake Pontchartrain is looking toward the future. via The Baptist Message

“When I watched the Katrina coverage on CNN”

IN the nearly three years since the levees failed during Hurricane Katrina , you haven't had to wait very long at a Louisiana festival or nightclub before a singer croons, "What has happened down here is the ... via New York Times

A 27-year-old St. Charles Parish man was booked with one count of vehicular homicide Monday in the death of a 65-year-old Boutte man in January. via Times-Picayune

These government and community meetings are open to the public. To have meetings considered for inclusion, send e-mail to citydesk@tpmail.com or a fax to 826-3007. -- The Walgreens Take Care Health Tour's ... via Times-Picayune

“It was a big shock for everybody, this whole area of Grand Marais”

No telephones rang in the darkness. No sirens pierced the night. For families of night shift workers at the Cargill salt mine on Belle Isle, the only sign that something was amiss in the early morning hours of ... via The Advocate

“I couldn't get anywhere with them after that”

Despite the housing boom of the early part of the decade, there are between 1,500 and 2,000 lots in St. via Times-Picayune

Construction crews began work Monday in St. John the Baptist Parish on a repaving project that will cause intermittent lane closures on Airline Highway possibly until mid-July. The $1.2 million project, ... via Times-Picayune