Jean Lafitte News

The more than 30 graduate Main Street communities throughout Louisiana are coming together throughout November for a cultural road show with special events designed highlight the state's unique culture.

No city in the U.S, has more haunted history than New Orleans, Louisiana. I'm gonna tell you a bit about the eerie history of NOLA's famed above-ground tombs.

A Jean Lafitte police officer has been arrested after allegedly burglarizing a car, said Sheriff Newell Normand.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office announces the arrest of Jean Lafitte Police Officer Anthony J. Molinario, W/M, 27, of Luling, for the crime of simple burglary of a vehicle.

The communities of Jean Lafitte and Crown Point in west Jefferson Parish have grown more vulnerable to surge flooding in recent decades as human activity and coastal erosion depleted surrounding marshes.

The National Park Service is making a proposal to reclaim more than 20 miles of abandoned oil and gas canals inside Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve-Barataria Unit to restore marshland, reduce saltwater intrusion and reverse land loss.

After an unplanned break the Rendez-vous des Cajuns live Cajun music radio and TV show is back at the Liberty Theater in Eunice.

Jefferson Parish is planning aerial mosquito spraying tonight and Friday from 7 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. The locations to be sprayed include Kenner from Lake Pontchartrain to Louis Armstrong International Airport and Williams Boulevard to the St.

The Jean Lafitte Town Council has a new face after Sloane Kerner, the daughter of Mayor Tim Kerner, resigned from the council to move to Colorado.

The state of Louisiana has approved more than $16 million for six drainage projects in unincorporated Jefferson Parish and one drainage project in the Town of Grand Isle, allowing parish officials to access federal Community Development Block Grant funds needed to implement the projects.

The Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival is this weekend. It starts at six o' clock tonight and runs through Sunday.

Project 30-90, New Orleans' first "green" music festival, debuted Saturday at the New River City Plaza near the Convention Center.

In a subtle change billed as a cost-cutting move, Jefferson Parish will forgo garbage collection on seven holidays.

Jean Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner couldn't gush enough as he walked through the million-dollar safe house and storage garage his town recently completed, just in time for the heart of hurricane season.

Jean Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner couldn't gush enough as he walked through the million-dollar safe house and storage garage his town recently completed, just in time for the heart of hurricane season.

State and parish officials are gathered this morning in St. Bernard Parish to break ground on the repairs for Jean Lafitte Parkway in Chalmette, one of more than 50 roads being repaired through the South Louisiana Submerged Roads Program .

Jean Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner couldn't gush enough as he walked through the million-dollar safe house and storage garage his town recently completed, just in time for the heart of hurricane season.

A man was hospitalized in critical condition with severe head trauma after apparently falling from a balcony at a Chalmette apartment early Tuesday morning, July 7, Chief Deputy Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

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 .