Reserve News

A review team from the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness began assessing damage in St.

Jeffery Renard Allen's Holding Pattern, a collection of short stories, has won the $10,000 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for a book published in 2008.

The St. John the Baptist Parish Council approved the purchase of $15 million in public improvement bonds that will be used to expand a sewage treatment plant and to replace pipes in the parish's sewer system.

Homewood Place in Reserve was flooded by heavy rains early Tuesday. Faced with the potential for more rain overnight and a rising number of residents reporting flooded homes, St.

A storm system dumped several inches of rain on parts of southeastern Louisana, flooding streets in the New Orleans area and some homes in St.

A band of thunderstorms and high winds slammed the metro New Orleans area early Tuesday morning, flooding streets, knocking out power and perhaps even spawning a tornado in Kenner, according to meteorologists.

Cold weather has finally set in. While temperatures in south Louisiana don't plummet the way they do north of Interstate 10, we do get our share of frosty mornings.

The Edgard-to-Reserve ferry has been closed for more than two years. It was photographed in 2006.

St. John the Baptist Parish officials plan to ask council members next week for permission to request proposals on engineering services for two coastal restoration projects.

St. John the Baptist Parish authorities arrested a Texas man on suspicion of threatening another with a handgun after the two were involved in a minor vehicle accident early Monday evening, a department spokesman said.

Hide behind economics all you like, the job of those running the Federal Reserve will always be political.

St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies booked a Reserve man with aggravated burglary after a home invasion, where authorities say he hit another man several times with a claw hammer.

Most of Marathon Petroleum Co.'s 42 percent increase in emissions was due to paint use during its expansion, according to Nicole Brien, environmental coordinator for the Garyville plant.

The St. John the Baptist Parish Council approved an agreement Tuesday for an engineering firm to design a gym at Regala Park, a project that is part of the parish's $29.5 million bond issues.

State Police are searching for a late model Ford Mustang in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a pedestrian last week.

Norman Francis , who has led Xavier University for 41 years, has been named one of America's Best Leaders in a poll conducted by U.S. News Media Group and a division of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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

The Louisiana Technical College-River Parishes Campus will host a job fair and Octoberfest on the Reserve campus Thursday, with at least 17 industries and businesses expected to be represented.

United Community Bank of Gonzales, which has about $129 million in deposits, is the subject of an acquisition bid by a larger bank based in Raceland.

A day after a 36-year-old Reserve woman was killed in a hit-and-run accident, authorities and family members still search for the unidentified driver of a pickup truck who witnesses say never stopped driving.