Cameron News

WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 504 AM CST MON JAN 4 2010 ...HARD FREEZE WARNING FOR LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING... RESIDENTS MAY BEGIN TO START THINKING ABOUT HOW TO PROTECT PEOPLE...PIPES...PETS...AND PLANTS FROM THESE FREEZING TEMPERATURES.

The name E. Cameron Coffin may not ring a bell for many local residents, but Jennings Police Department officials will soon be making sure he gains a place in the city's long history - all thanks to one Southeast Louisiana man.

The parishes hardest hit from hurricanes Katrina and Rita have until the end of this year to apply for more than $1.2 billion remaining in a special pool of recovery bonds or face the prospect of losing that capacity to lesser affected storm areas, the director of the State Bond Commission said Friday.

CAMERON - U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany is asking President Obama to include southwest Louisiana on his upcoming trip to the Gulf Coast.

CAMERON - Officials held groundbreaking ceremonies last week for a new LSU AgCenter Cameron Parish extension office, to be rebuilt on the site of the previous facility, which had been destroyed by Hurricane Rita in 2005.

Two years later, Hurricane Ike brushed by on its way to Texas, again sending storm surge through much of southwest Louisiana.

Wondering how to help save Louisiana's coast from erosion and hurricane damage? Now is your chance to get dirty for a good cause.

If you're heading to the Louisiana coast this weekend, swim advisories have been issued once again for some beaches.

June 2009 Ky D. Griffin owner of Stringer & Griffin Funeral Homes was one of the First to sign up and one of the first to finish the 512 mile, 6-day Tour du Rouge Bicycle Ride from Houston to New Orleans.

If you're planning on hitting a Louisiana beach this weekend to cool off from the record temperatures, we've got some bad news.

The DaSilva brothers and their mom are going back to New Orleans today. Four of their friends and two more mothers are going, too.