Donaldsonville News Archives

The state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority on Monday reserved about $200 million from the 2009 state budget surplus to acquire land for 100-year levee projects in New Orleans.

A Donaldsonville man convicted of the January armed robbery of Coco's Treasure Chest was sentenced to serve 66 years in prison, 23rd Judicial District Attorney Ricky Babin said Wednesday.

State officials and project engineers laid out for public view Tuesday data regarding the planned dredging of the upper reaches of Bayou Lafourche.

With their colorful signs hawking homemade boudin, cracklings and andouille, the mom and pop stores that dot the Louisiana Cajun country left a lifelong mark on celebrated chef Donald Link.

A man is dead after what Ascension Parish Sheriff's Detectives are calling a "family feud." It happened around 2:30 this afternoon inside a house in Donaldsonville, just down the street from the Ascension Parish prison.

There's a battle brewing on Bayou Lafourche. In one corner is the state that wants to dredge the waterway.

A 22-year-old Baker man was indicted on murder and weapons charges Wednesday in the shooting death of a Donaldsonville man in June 2008.

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery in the United States, and preparations are in the works for this year's event.

A A A' The U.S. military has released a Shiite militant accused of being involved in one of the most brazen attacks of the war that killed five American soldiers in 2007, the Iraqi government said Tuesday.

Two Donaldsonville residents died early Saturday when their car hit a tree off La.