Donaldsonville News

Ascension Parish sheriff's deputies are investigating the source of a bullet that struck and penetrated several rooms of a Donaldsonville home, the Sheriff's Office said Monday.

An expert panel tasked with reviewing a levee that would protect communities between Bayou Lafourche and the Mississippi River from hurricane flooding held its first meeting Wednesday in Thibodaux.

The first public meeting of the Donaldsonville to the Gulf Science and Engineering Review Panel will be from 10 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center, 314 St.

A state-hired panel of engineering and environmental experts from across the country will meet today to begin evaluating five alignments for the planned Donaldsonville-to-the-Gulf levee to block storm surge from the Barataria Basin.

The city is willing to chip in $25,000 toward studying possible north-south routes connecting the Sunshine Bridge in Donaldsonville to Interstate 12 in Livingston Parish.

Chett Chiasson will succeed Ted Falgout as executive director of Port Fourchon when he retires next month from his post of 31 years.

The Donaldsonville City Council voted 3-1 Tuesday to accept an agreement calling for the demolition of three houses in serious disrepair and the renovation of a fourth.

Police have made two arrests in a pair of Halloween night shootings during a party at the home of former NBA player John "Hot Rod" Williams.

Ascension Parish government officials said Friday they are undecided about how 28 proposed amendments to the home rule charter will be placed on the election ballot March 27.

The City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to increase certain fees it collects for sewer services in order to fund improvements to the city's sewer system.

A city Fire Department captain planning to return home after five years of active duty military service will be allowed to reclaim his former job, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night.

With an influx of federal stimulus money, a project to provide hurricane and flood protection to communities between Lafourche and Plaquemines parishes is back under way, state officials say.

Ascension Parish Councilman Oliver Joseph plans to meet with residents at 6 p.m. today to discuss a proposed ballot proposition that would impose parcel fees to pay utility costs for a west bank road lighting district, he said.

A small community in Donaldsonville is dealing with a big problem. Homeowners in the St.

A two-vehicle crash on I-10 in Ascension Parish claimed the life of a Donaldsonville woman just after 2:00 a.m. this morning.

A Gonzales man was convicted of second-degree murder in the slaying of a victim who did not pay up for $80 in drugs loaned to him during a weekend of drug-using nearly two years ago.

The legal review period for Ascension Parish property owners to look over the 2009 tax rolls ends Tuesday, the parish assessor said.

Elephant ear plants may be ornamental on your coffee table, but in a major Louisiana bayou they're an invasive species that could choke the waterway-the source of drinking water for 300,000 rural residents of the state.

Louisiana's offenders have been put back in the classroom, thanks to a partnership between the LSU AgCenter and the Louisiana Department of Corrections.

Gonzales police and Sorrento town officials offered their support Thursday for projects proposed in Ascension Parish's draft application for $19.3 million in federal hurricane dollars.