Luling News

A puppy in a pet store grows up to inspire a couple, their friends and music video fans in Norway Sunday, November 08, 2009 Sheila Stroup The first time Matt Touchard saw the silver ball of fluff, he wasn't sure what he was looking at.

St. Charles Parish Council members added $3.4 million to the parish's $134 million budget on Tuesday, prompting Parish President V.J. St.

A reserve Lafitte police officer was indefinitely suspended from his job after he allegedly broke into a car parked behind the town's police station -- in plain view of its owners, according to authorities.

By the end, 77 balloons were drifting slowly over the Mississippi River near the spot between Destrehan and Luling where 33 years ago the ferry George Prince collided with the massive Norwegian tanker S.S. Frosta.

An argument over a handicapped parking space has led to the arrest of a Luling woman who allegedly scratched the car of the person who got to the spot first.

St. Charles Parish could use $8 million of its projected $33.7 million in cash reserves to complete construction projects and subsidize operations, but Parish President V.J. St.

Proposed cap and trade laws to stem the production of greenhouse gases will have an outsized effect on industrial manufacturers in the River Parishes, economist Loren Scott told an economic development forum on Monday.

Certified nursing assistants, process technology interns and firefighters were among the positions available at a job fair Thursday in Reserve.

Work on a bike path that is expected to be completed by December is conducted on the Mississippi River levee under the Hale Boggs Bridge in Luling on Thursday.

A Metairie woman accused of stabbing an ex-boyfriend several times was arrested Monday by St.

Volunteer Robert Gensure with the Rotary Club of St. Charles nails a board into a boardwalk at Wetland Watchers Park in the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Norco in October, 2008.

St. Charles Parish voters renewed three taxes Saturday. FIRE PROTECTION TAX Voters renewed for another 10 years the 1.58-mill tax that generates $1.54 million a year to fund operational expenses and buy equipment for the parish's nine volunteer fire departments.

A memorial has been placed to the victims of a 1976 Louisiana ferry disaster that killed 77 people.

An in-depth study of the St. Charles Parish Recreation Department will be considered by the Parish Council on Monday.

St. Charles Parish residents, many of whom lined the levees after the Oct. 20, 1976, Luling ferry disaster, will come together again on Saturday to remember.

A crowd of state and local officials lined up Tuesday to demand that the Davis Pond Diversion structure in Luling be opened wide to pump more fresh water into the Barataria Basin.

Officers arrested a Luling man in connection with the burglary of a Slidell residence performed in the nude, the Slidell Police Department reported Thursday.

The man who broke into a Slidell home while stark naked said he was suffering from a medical problem that kept him from realizing what he was doing.

A Luling man who broke into a Slidell home while naked, made himself a meal and took a shower before fleeing has told police he was suffering from a medical problem during the bizarre break-in, authorities said Wednesday.

A proposed extension of Sugarland Parkway in Luling got a letter of no objection to its application for a wetlands development permit from the St.