Golden Meadow News

With New Year's Eve just a day away, fireworks sales were expected to pick up in Lafourche, though the decade-long prohibition on them in Terrebonne persists.

U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon is asking for $21 million for levees and flood protection in southeast Louisiana.

The final weeks of 2009 have produced a few surprising sources of support for upgrading La.

President Barack Obama signed a congressional spending bill into law Wednesday night that includes nearly $1.3 million for a set of high-profile projects in Lafourche Parish that will impact the education community, energy sector and commercial fishing industry.

From the Lafourche Parish SO: ABC26 News December 10, 2009 Sheriff Craig Webre announced the first of its kind event in Lafourche Parish this Thursday morning.

Armed with more than 70 warrants, law-enforcement agencies conducted a roundup of people with outstanding legal issues involving a DWI arrest, including failure to appear in court.

Golden Meadow's police chief will get a 7 percent pay raise in 2010, bringing his annual salary up to $53,000. Randy Chiasson, chief for nearly a year, also gets $5,100 a year in supplemental pay from the state.

Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 12:04 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 12:04 p.m. The following is a rundown of action taken by the Lafourche School Board at its regular meeting Wednesday.

For nearly a century, the homes and businesses between Golden Meadow and Fourchon have disappeared one by one, victims of sinking land, surging surf and the occasional hurricane.

A do-it-yourself tattoo resulted in new charges Tuesday for a Lafourche Parish jail inmate, authorities said.

Published: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 11:44 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 11:44 a.m. The following is a rundown of action taken Tuesday by the Lafourche Parish Council.

In a small set of buildings off U.S. 90, there's another option for local students who land themselves in trouble because of disciplinary and behavioral issues.

Louisiana State Police are asking the public's help in finding the hit-and-run driver accused of killing a Cut Off man nearly a year ago, troopers said Thursday.

After a day working out with her friends, Connie Boudreaux, of Labadieville, decided to head to a friend's camp on Grand Isle.

A debate over whether to use $1.2 million to help elevate La. 1 or build a pump station that could prevent flooding for more than 30,000 Thibodaux area residents remains unresolved.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:59 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:59 p.m. The following is a rundown of action taken Tuesday by the Lafourche Parish Council.

Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary William D. Ankner, Ph.D., announced that the department has begun mailing the first LA 1 toll bridge violation notices.

Just a few weeks after construction finished on the Leon Theriot Lock in Golden Meadow, the new flood-protection measure was put to an unexpected test.

Tropical Storm Ida appeared bound for Alabama this morning, but local officials were keeping a wary eye on the late-season system and the 3 to 5 inches of rain it was projected to dump on Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 12:33 a.m. BATON ROUGE - Politicians, business leaders and scientists from all over the Gulf Coast, including Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, are coalescing behind a new study that calls for widespread changes in a federal coastal program that's bogged ...