Venice News

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal says the worst of Ida will not hit Louisiana, but the state is ready for what the storm does have to offer.

The Coast Guard medevaced a man from a fishing vessel approximately 200 miles south of Venice, La., Saturday.

Art lovers can begin counting the days until Prospect.2 New Orleans, the second citywide biennial art extravaganza that's scheduled to open one year from Friday.

As Hurricane Ida makes it way through the Gulf of Mexico, some area schools have decided to close Monday.

A weakened Hurricane Ida moved through the Gulf of Mexico early Monday, forecast to skirt the mouth of the Mississippi River before making landfall in Florida on Tuesday.

Public schools will be closed Monday in both Plaquemines and Lafourche Parishes along with the 17th Judicial District Court system.

It started with the shortening of the Red Snapper Season from six months to 75 days.

BATON ROUGE, La. a ' The State Bond Commission approved $560 million in funding for projects in the New Orleans area.

The Coast Guard and O'Brien's Response Management are responding to oil which is leaking from the motor vessel Pac Alkaid, which is anchored 10 miles southeast of Southwest Pass near Venice, La.

The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking additional public input on improvements to Plaquemines Parish's federal levees in two public meetings, starting Tuesday.

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

Despite slipping in the statewide rankings, the Jefferson Parish public school system posted its greatest gain ever on its district performance score this year, a sign that the system is progressing in terms of overall accountability, school officials said Tuesday.

Plaquemines Parish will spray its citrus crop next week in an effort to stem the spread of c itrus greening disease , parish officials have announced.

A long-dormant plan to build a new port complex near the mouth of the Mississippi River has stepped closer to reality at a time when Louisiana politicians and business leaders are touting the state's waterways as routes to economic recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

After a series of loud and passionate meetings, the Army Corps of Engineers is well aware that Plaquemines Parish residents who live south of Oakville on the West Bank want to be protected inside a so-called 100-year levee, the commander of the corps' New Orleans District said Saturday.

But some fear project will worsen flooding Saturday, September 19, 2009 Andrea Shaw West Bank bureau Despite complaints from some Plaquemines Parish residents who fear it will increase their risk of flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers will proceed with a "critical" piece of the West Bank hurricane protection project that will build a floodgate ...

A developer trying to build a proposed port complex in Plaquemines Parish has won approval to use $300 million in hurricane recovery bonds to finance the project.

Thousands of Plaquemines Parish residents rallied in Baton Rouge in 2006 urging state and federal leaders to boost the parish's hurricane defenses.

When South Louisiana emptied out on the Friday and Saturday before Hurricane Katrina, it was as if time had been suspended in hundreds of thousands of homes.

A U.S. Coast Guard crew based out of Southeast Louisiana airlifted a 56-year-old man who was bitten by a shark while fishing near Breton Island on Saturday.