Amelia News

If you walk through the produce section of your favorite local grocery store, you may see an item labeled 'Creole tomatoes.' You may see a similar name for tomato plants at the garden center.

Alan C. McClure Associates , a naval architecture and engineering firm, announced that the first dry dock for a ferry being built for the Texas Department of Transportation has been completed at Conrad Deepwater in Amelia, Louisiana.

The owner of the Evangeline Downs race track says its has agreed to buy the Amelia Belle riverboat casino near Morgan City for $106.5 million.

A man is missing after jumping off of a boat in Bayou Beouf in Amelia. The St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office responded to Lake Palourde Road Tuesday morning around 3 AM.

The family of a man killed in a South Louisiana helicopter crash has filed a lawsuit against the aircraft's pilots, owner and manufacturer.

The St. Mary Parish Council voted to allow Parish President Paul Naquin to enter an agreement and accept $167,861 for a coastal protection project.

The cockpit voice recorder from a PHI helicopter that crashed near Morgan City picked up a loud noise before the aircraft plunged into the marsh.

The Sikorsky helicopter carried seven oil-rig workers as it took off for the Gulf of Mexico last month, just as thousands of flights do each day over distances beyond the reach of radar and out to platforms ...

Workers gather in the predawn hours at a small helicopter terminal in Port Fouchon, La., a tiny seaport town on the southern tip of Lafourche Parish.

The wreckage of a PHI helicopter that crashed Sunday afternoon, killing eight of nine men on board, arrived at PHI's headquarters in Lafayette on Wednesday morning, National Transportation Safety Board ...

In this photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, debris can be seen in a marsh area after a helicopter crash that occurred near Bayou Penchant, La., at approximately 3 p.m., Sunday.

Federal investigators are expected to arrive in Louisiana today to look into what caused a fatal helicopter crash.

On Sunday, January 4, 2009, at approximately 2:10 pm, a PHI, Inc. Sikorsky S76 medium transport helicopter was involved in a fatal accident approximately 10 miles south of Morgan City, LA.

Eight people have been killed in a helicopter crash near New Orleans in the US state of Louisiana.

Authorities are searching a southern Louisiana marsh by boat today for clues that might determine the cause of a helicopter crash that killed eight people bound for an offshore oil platform.

Eight people were killed and a ninth was reported critically injured after a helicopter bound for the offshore oil fields crashed Sunday afternoon in marshlands about 100 miles southwest of New Orleans.