St. James News

Nucor Steel, which is considering building a $4 billion pig iron plant in St. James Parish, has purchased nearly 890 acres for $16.3 million.

A line of posts and cables -- expanding day by day in the median of Interstate 12 -- stands as a tangible sign of safer high-speed travel across St.

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The St. James Parish school system plans to start a new program to prepare its high school graduates to take the state cosmetology exam and get jobs as licensed cosmetologists.

State Superintendent Paul Pastorek didn't budge Monday on legislation being proposed to change how school boards operate.

Shivang Churiwala knows what he will do on weekends during summer vacation, a month before the holiday starts.

A higher voter turnout turn-out in St. James Parish helped propel Vacherie lawyer attorney Jude Gravois to victory Saturday in the race for the vacant seat judge on the state 5th Circuit Court of Appeal.

A new regional transit system is operating bus service linking St. James Parish with St.

Officials expect low voter turnout in St. John the Baptist and St. Charles parishes today, as residents take to the polls to elect a judge to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal and weigh in on two bond issues.

Lafourche Parish deputies arrested and booked a St. James Parish man on five counts of armed robbery, Sheriff Craig Webre said Thursday.

Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price is driving a city vehicle again. He had given it up after admitting to multiple drunk driving incidents.

Authorities say one man is dead and three others have been seriously injured in a blast at a south Louisiana oil facility.

A 45-year-old Texas man has been identified as the worker killed in a midmorning fire Tuesday at a Marathon Petroleum-owned oil storage facility in St.

Three children and two adults were injured Tuesday afternoon when a pickup truck hit a minibus transporting Head Start students on La.

A midmorning fire Tuesday at a Marathon Petroleum-owned oil storage facility in St.

An explosion at a plant in St. James has killed one person and injured two others, according to the Louisiana state police.

A St. James Parish jury convicted David Dee, 35, 325 Ash St., Hahnville, of armed robbery.

St. James Parish government will be better prepared to communicate with the public during the 2009 hurricane season if all goes according to plan, an official told the Parish Council Wednesday.

High school seniors can get help applying for federal and state scholarships, grants, loans and other student aid for college Sunday at East St.

St. James man vows to be 'fair and right' Thursday, January 29, 2009 River Parishes bureau Jude Gravois, a St.