Lafitte News

State and local officials are encouraging residents to recycle their Christmas tree to help protect and rebuild coastal wetlands.

NEW ORLEANS - For fans of the Cincinnati Bearcats visiting New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl, a long weekend won't be enough to take in everything the Crescent City has to offer.

This aerial over New Orleans and Lafitte shows the loss of wetlands in the area.

An elf collects letters to Santa from children along the parade route during St.

Jefferson Parish schools are strictly enforcing residency requirements in order to comply with a desegregation order, and the change from the district's previous lax approach to attendance boundaries has upset some families whose children have been forced to change schools.

The Xavier University Gospel Choir and the Treme Brass Band were among the performers Thursday at the 'Lighting of the Balconies' event at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street.

Kelly Barbato and her 17-year-old son, Blake, stand on the front porch of the house in Lafitte where they have been living.

Construction has begun on the new visitor's center at Chalmette Battlefield , officials said.

A state-hired panel of engineering and environmental experts from across the country will meet today to begin evaluating five alignments for the planned Donaldsonville-to-the-Gulf levee to block storm surge from the Barataria Basin.

As Ida gets closer to the Gulf of Mexico, flooding becomes a concern in southeastern Louisiana.

The Rev. Joe Recasner's memory of his childhood in the Lower 9th Ward is a bit fuzzy -- he has a hard time remembering exactly when his family moved to the area or how long it was before a wall separating his neighborhood from the adjacent Bayou Bienvenue was built.

A man was shot shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Bienville and N. Derbigny streets .

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.

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

BATON ROUGE - The chief concerns Louisiana shrimpers have had about foreign shrimp involved the low prices they forced onto the market.

Several high-level Obama administration officials heard more than three hours worth of testimony Monday from environmental groups, fishing organizations, scientists and the oil and gas industry about development of a national policy aimed at protecting the oceans and streamlining government management.

Federal housing officials broke ground this morning at the B.W. Cooper, the last of the former "Big Four" public-housing developments to secure financing for construction.

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.

Aerial spraying is planned Friday night to combat mosquitoes in Kenner and the Lafitte area, Jefferson Parish officials said.

Zipping in an airboat over a thick mat of water hyacinths floating in an old oil and gas service canal in the Barataria Preserve, David Muth pointed to wispy trees lining the banks and raised his voice to be heard above the roaring motor.