Norco News

The Norco Christmas Parade on Sunday, Dec., 6, would have been disrupted if the Hale Boggs Bridge were to close on that day.

Norco businessman Burnell Moliere was sentenced to three years of probation last week for helping a former Orleans Parish School Board member cash a check that the federal government asserted was a bribe.

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.

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.

The Louisiana Department of Education released school and district performance scores Tuesday, basking in a statewide improvement of 4.7 points, from 86.3 in 2008, to 91 in 2009.

The first phase of Wetland Watchers Park , delayed since June because of wetlands permits, may get under way within 10 days, said John Campo, the project's architect.

Construction is under way for a barrier along Airline Drive t o keep motorists out of the canal alongside it, but high water in the canal is slowing the work.

St. Charles Parish voters will decide whether to renew property taxes supporting medical services, the parish's nine volunteer fire departments and road construction in an Oct.

Sixteen St. Charles Parish homes that have flooded several times will be raised to a higher elevation under a federal program designed to stop repetitive flood claims.

With no debate, the State Bond Commission gave unanimous support to the use of $100 million in hurricane-recovery bonds to help finance construction of a biodiesel plant in St.

Levee work in Jefferson Parish, photographed in July, and in St. Charles Parish will make use of clay being excavated from the Bonnet Carre Spillway.

St. Charles Parish school officials have developed a wish list of projects the district could build with the $10 million in federal stimulus bonds the district hopes to sell.

St. Charles Parish school officials have developed a wish list of projects the district could build with the $10 million in federal stimulus bonds the district hopes to sell.

On Aug. 7, police responded to a complex on Government Road were several garages and storage units had been pried open.

Youngsville Medical is closed now, a darkened suite at the end of a strip mall on East Milton Avenue.

People unfamiliar with the 5-mile stretch of Airline Drive that parallels the Borrow Pit Canal in St.

East St. Charles Parish Volunteer firefighters assist in hooking a chain from a tow truck to a submerged vehicle in the canal that runs along Airline Drive.

A trial run of opening two St. Charles Parish branch libraries on Saturdays will end Aug.

The Environmental Protection Agency has fined the River Parishes Oil Company of Norco, Louisiana, $1,800 for violating federal Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure regulations outlined under the Clean Water Act.

Work is nearing completion on four new covered play areas at St. Charles Parish elementary schools.