Chauvin News

Flooding and drainage problems are so bad at the Houma-Terrebonne Airport that a drainage ditch is always full of water - so much water that an alligator is making a home there, according to the owner of an aircraft charter business.

The Ouachita River will likely fall below its 40-foot flood stage on Sunday or Monday for the first time in three weeks.

Willard Thibodeaux, 69, of Houma looks out at the water Friday with his grandson Demarco Thibodeaux, 3, on the deck of a houseboat in Cocodrie.

Terri Broussard knows when it's hurricane season: Calls for refills of nerve-calming meds start piling up at the doctor's office where she works in this bayou community.

Vehicle she was in rear-ended, flipped Thursday, April 30, 2009 River Parishes bureau A 72-year-old Montz woman was identified as the victim of Sunday's fatal car crash on Interstate 310 in St.

He's booked with DWI, vehicular homicide Wednesday, April 29, 2009 River Parishes bureau A Chauvin man was booked with DWI and vehicular homicide in connection with a fatal accident Sunday.

Firemen speak out about idle fire truck controversy Tax Day deadline closes in Cellphones can be hazardous to your health More than three-billion people use cell phones worldwide.

A convicted Terrebonne Parish drug dealer is challenging a Louisiana law requiring drug dealers to pay taxes on their illegal wares.

HOUMA - A benefit is planned this weekend to help the family of a slain Chauvin man pay his funeral costs.

Metairie , LA. Jefferson Parish Personnel Board Hearing Officer Theordore Nass dismissed a harassment complaint by Jefferson Parish employee Terence Lee against five other parish employees whom Lee claimed were ...

Streetcar Route at 7:00 p.m. Click here for a link to the parade route. Krewe of Alla Algiers at 1:00 p.m. Click here for a link to the official Krewe of Alla website.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced that the state and parish are breaking ground on a three-mile, $6.9 million stretch of the Morganza to-the-Gulf Hurricane Protection System in Chauvin.

Calling more than a decade of delays by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers unacceptable, Gov.

Montegut- On New Year's Eve night, a Chauvin woman and her son were ejected from their vehicle as it flipped several times off LA 58 in southern Terrebonne Parish.

HOLIDAY HOURS Lafayette's three municipal courses - The Wetlands, Les Vieux Chenes and Hebert Park - will be open regular hours on New Year's Eve and will be closed on New Year's Day.

A woman who allegedly struck her daughter's preschool teacher told officers she'd been drinking since early that morning, police said.

Renauld Portier's childhood dream was to be an artist. But a lifetime of working with wood led him to amend those ambitions slightly.