Barataria News

Ian Hamel-Smith is the lucky grand prize winner of the first prize in the recently concluded 'Build Your Dreams' promotion of The Home Store, winning a kitchen worth $50,000. The contest, which ran for a four-month period, offered over $100,000 in prizes.

The "Help is Here Express" bus is in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish through Thursday to help uninsured and financially struggling residents access information on programs that provide prescription medicines for free or nearly free.

So here's the whole story. . . Almost all of the speckled trout that's inhabiting the region have moved into Lower Barataria Bay and almost all of the redfish have moved into the shoreline shallows around the broken islands just north of Grand Isle.

A 39-year-old Houma man is accused of failing to tell an undercover officer he was HIV positive during a prostitution bust, an omission that resulted in a rarely levied charge.

Joe Baucum understands the value of developing a relationship with law enforcement officials.

The Barataria Bridge in Lafitte will be closed to traffic from Thursday night until early Friday morning, the state Department of Transportation and Development has announced.

Westwego voters head back to the polls today to elect City Council members in three races and to decide on renewing a tax for ambulance service.

A critical property tax that pays for fire protection in Lafitte, Barataria, Crown Point and Jean Lafitte is up for renewal May 2, and local officials say that without it, fire protection for those communities would cease.

Posted by Theodore P. Mahne, Contributing writer, The Times-Picayune April 17, 2009 3:00PM A scene from 'Cabildo,' which will be staged at the Cabildo this week.

We've got water and sewer pipes; we've got oil pipelines and gas pipelines. Now, we've got a mud pipeline.

Gov. Bobby Jindal said sediment that used to replenish the marshes before the levees were built makes "common sense" for the area to benefit from the sediment in the river.

It's been almost a year, but speckled trout anglers who call Lafitte home are feeling they could be smiling as early as this weekend -- and it's all because of crabbers and a few surprised guides.

A tour boat with Jean Lafitte Swamp Tours motors down a canal next to a 3,000 acre section of land that has been added to the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve Barataria Preserve on Thursday, April 2, 2009.

LAFAYETTE -- State police say a Breaux Bridge woman died in a one car accident on La.

Severe weather caused some flooding in low-lying areas of the West Bank on Thursday night, but the damage was not widespread or extensive.

About 150 residents were on the West Bank Tuesday night to discuss the Army Corps of Engineers' plans to protect Lafitte, Crown Point and Barataria from the next big storm surge.

AaNearly 200 Lafitte-area residents showed up to demand that community of 8,000 be kept inside hurricane levee system being considered by the Army Corps of Engineers.

An effort to expand the Jean Lafitte National Park is moving ahead. On Thursday, the Senate passed a federal lands bill that includes a provision to transfer 3,000 acres of federal land to the Barataria Preserve Unit of the national park and authorizes the National Park Service to buy 5,857 acres of private land from willing sellers.

The infamous pirate Jean Lafitte may have left treasure behind when he shuffled off his mortal coil.

Workshops to focus on hazard mitigation The LSU Sea Grant College Program and the state Department of Natural Resources Coastal Management Division will hold three workshops in March on hazard mitigation based ...