Grand Isle News

If you're planning to spend all or part of your holiday weekend at the beach, you should know that state health officials warn against swimming in the surf off some stretches of sand.

A sign on the entrance to the Louisiana Highway 1 alerts drivers about delinquent tolls on the new Leeville Bridge which opens Tuesday, July7, 2009.

Gary Grzybowski knows how brutal storms can be on Grand Isle. He has owned a home there for nearly 17 years, and when Hurricane Gustav breached the sand dune levee, just yards from his home, he thought the worst.

A Louisiana environmental group received $4 million in stimulus money from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for creation of oyster reefs for shoreline protection purposes.

This image depicts what the Mississippi delta would look like if land continues sinking and sea level rises one meter.

So here's the whole story. . . Almost all of the speckled trout that's inhabiting the region have moved into Lower Barataria Bay and almost all of the redfish have moved into the shoreline shallows around the broken islands just north of Grand Isle.

Two legislative committees will have to approve territories drawn up to set rates charged by the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that on Friday he signed eleven bills passed by the legislature into law, bringing the total to 103 bills signed into law to date and also announced bills which became law without the Governor's signature in accordance with the ten-day rule following bill passage by the legislature.

Linda Turner estimates that in the 26 years she's been married to her husband, Roger, he has done about 98 percent of the cooking.

More than two dozen Hurricane Katrina and Rita rebuilding projects delayed for months across coastal Louisiana can move forward now that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has revised rules that had prohibited federal investment in risky areas.

As bills that would expand Louisiana's smoking ban to gambling venues continue to smolder in the Legislature, casino officials are battling to avoid what they call an unfair financial burden.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development will host an open house tonight to give Lafayette residents an opportunity to learn about the new La.

Workers are nearing completion of the new Louisiana Highway 1 toll bridge, featuring a no-stop tolling system, over Bayou Lafourche near Port Fourchon and Grand Isle.

Addressing an issue that has held up 34 hurricane construction projects in Louisiana and briefly delayed confirmation of FEMA's new administrator, the Obama administration Tuesday agreed to rule changes that will allow the projects to move forward or retain previously awarded federal financing.

Grand Isle is in line for $750,000 in federal stimulus money to restore forested areas on the island, the state Department of Environmental Quality announced Wednesday.

Over the objections of a West Bank lawmaker, a House committee approved legislation Tuesday to divert some of the money that now goes to the unincorporated areas of West Jefferson to help build a library at Grand Isle.

The state highway department will have a series of public meetings to explain the new Louisiana 1 Highway toll bridge over Bayou Lafourche near Port Fourchon and Grand Isle.

Although a $24 million state-of-the-art emergency operations center Jefferson Parish is building in Gretna won't be ready for a couple years, the parish has added two high-tech mobile command and communication posts in preparation for the hurricane season that starts Monday.

When the nation's first offshore oil port opened off the coast of Louisiana in 1981, the country was still reeling from an energy crisis that had sapped fuel consumption and slashed commodity prices.

The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port is located 18 miles south of Grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico.