Bayou Gauche News

St. Charles Parish Councilman Paul Hogan will ask the Parish Council on Monday to call for an investigation into how the new building expanded from a 26,000-square-foot building to the 40,000-square-foot building that will open early next year.

Through the hot summer, Cajuns take to the bayous in their air boats, pirogues and flat-bottomed mud craft in search of patches of lotus flowers floating in the shallow swamps and marshes of coastal Louisiana.

A 16-year-old Harahan boy who was visiting relatives in Bayou Gauche is accused of trying to take a part of the community home with him.

A A A' The 3-foot-long alligator on a bicyclist's shoulders was a real attention-getter. St.

With more than three dozen car burglaries reported so far in July, St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne is urging residents to keep their car doors locked.

St. Charles Parish is using global positioning system equipment to collect data on local levee heights for use in storm surge modeling by Louisiana State University AgCenter and the National Hurricane Center.

A $254,000 St. Charles Parish subsidy to the Sunset Drainage District could be in jeopardy after a Parish Council vote Monday.

The St. Charles Parish Council on Monday will consider giving the parish Library Board approval to hire an architect to design a new library in Paradis and to spend $3.7 million to improve the Cousins Canal pump station.

A Des Allemands couple has filed a recall petition against St. Charles Parish Councilman Paul Hogan.

The St. Charles Library Board will hold a special meeting at the St. Charles Parish Courthouse on Monday at 6 p.m. to discuss new options for a branch to serve Paradis, Des Allemands and Bayou Gauche.

The St. Charles Parish Library Board still wants a vacant restaurant for a new branch in Paradis, despite vehement opposition from that district's parish councilman.