Garyville News

The fight over whether to make the small St. John Parish community of Garyville into a town is getting heated, as people who live there say they found racially offensive signs Friday morning, urging people to ...

Up for consideration on Saturday 's ballot is approval of funds for a wide range of parish projects, renewal of a millage for mosquito controls, and a final resolution on whether or not the town of Garyville ...

The 2008 Legislature was good to U.S. 61 in the River Parishes. The state allocated $5 million for the divided highway in St.

St. John the Baptist Parish President Bill Hubbard told a judge Tuesday that parish officials recognize several plants' industrial designation during an on-going court hearing in Edgard regarding the proposed ...

A hearing will be held today involving six lawsuits over the proposed incorporation of Garyville in St.

The St. John Planning and Zoning Commission voted Monday to grant Nalco Co.'s request to add an 80-acre site to an existing parish-approved industrial area, while deadlocking on a similar request by Safeland ...

The state Supreme Court has named retired state Judge Anne Lennan Simon of New Iberia to preside over a case involving several Garyville area industries asking to be excluded from the proposed new town of ...

It's a typically hospitable river parish community. But these days residents of Garyville are divided over the town's future.

Four more industrial plants have filed court petitions seeking to be excluded from a potential new town in St.

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's deputies are investigating the shooting of a 17-year-old Garyville boy who was riding his bicycle just before he was struck.

Two men with gunshot wounds have been transported to area hospitals, one is said to be in critical condition, as St.

Attorneys for Marathon Oil's Garyville plant have filed suit asking a state district judge to decide whether the refinery should be excluded from the boundaries of a proposed municipality, before the ...

St. John Parish police made an arrest in connection with a shooting that took place Thursday in Garyville, the sheriff's office said.

Deputies found two people shot in a car in Garyville, La. Thursday. One victim was shot in the head and another in the shoulder.

A decision on whether land for a proposed Mount Airy tank farm should be considered an industrial area, excluding it from a proposed municipality, was put on hold until after a special election next month.

The St. John the Baptist Parish Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday to consider deeming a $140 million Mount Airy tank farm an industrial area.

The Port of South Louisiana plans to expropriate 1,400 feet of Mississippi River batture that it says is needed to build a 700-foot pier extension off its Globalplex dock in Reserve.

Parish officials say a pilot recycling program of free drop-off locations may soon reveal how green residents of St.

Editor and Publisher GARYVILLE The last apparent roadblock to construction of a tank farm in the Garyville-Mt. Airy region has been removed.

No new refineries have been built in the US in the past 25 years. And petroleum industry experts say anyone would have to be crazy to launch such an effort -- even though present refineries are running at ...