Jean Lafitte News

Arthur Pfister, aka Professor Arturo, grew up steeped in the love of a close New Orleans family.

Jean Redmann's "Death of a Dying Man." SPOTLIGHT ON: Jean Redmann and Greg Herren What: A guerrilla sidewalk celebration in the 500 and 600 blocks of Frenchmen Street, featuring novelists Redmann , Herren and Claude J. Summers .

The Jefferson Parish Council is expected to ratify a landmark contract Wednesday to dispose of garbage at the River Birch Landfill in Waggaman for 25 years while closing the neighboring parish dump at an estimated savings of $19 million to $23 million.

Take a Jean Lafitte Swamp and Airboat Tour and see the picturesque moss-draped trees, alligators and other wildlife that define Louisiana swamps.

Summer, for many, means a time to travel, explore new places, experience new things.

The Pirates Lafitte: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf, William C. Davis, Harcourt, Inc., hardcover, 706pp, notes, index, photo insert.

The U.S. Interior Department plans to spend $4.3 million it got from the economic stimulus package on national parks and other projects in Louisiana.

In blue-collar boat harbors and bayou backyards across coastal Louisiana last week, the acrid smell of fiberglass paste and the clanking of newly rigged nets signaled a May ritual that even the harshest global trade patterns haven't extinguished.

Chorale Acadienne's annual Music and Moonlight event will be held Saturday night at City Club in River Ranch.

Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard 's administration is circulating a survey to gauge public support for curbside garbage recycling.

Since the days of Jean Lafitte, and even before his time, Louisiana's ragged coastline has been a smuggler's paradise.

Westwego voters head back to the polls today to elect City Council members in three races and to decide on renewing a tax for ambulance service.

There are many different tours of every variety in New Orleans. Walking tours are great for sightseeing in the city.

Jefferson Parish's landfill would be closed and future garbage sent to a private landfill nearby, under a deal now being criticized by Sun Energy Group.

A critical property tax that pays for fire protection in Lafitte, Barataria, Crown Point and Jean Lafitte is up for renewal May 2, and local officials say that without it, fire protection for those communities would cease.

NATCHITOCHES - The Cane River Creole National Historic Park and Heritage Area in Natchitoches has been awarded $136,000 in grants to apply a lime wash surface to the interior of the historic Cook's Cabin, install improved heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems in two structures and paint the historic plantation house at Oakland ...

There's so much to do in New Orleans that a tourist might be forgiven for overlooking attractions just outside the city.

Wed, Apr 8, 2009 Pirates and the United States have a long history. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.

A tour boat with Jean Lafitte Swamp Tours motors down a canal next to a 3,000 acre section of land that has been added to the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve Barataria Preserve on Thursday, April 2, 2009.

The Rendez-vous des Cajuns Radio and TV show is kicking off its April performance schedule Saturday with a musical tribute to Cajun music legend D.L. Menard.