Belle Chasse News

Plaquemines Parish will begin mandatory evacuations by noon Saturday, but will be transporting those who need assistance out of the parish on buses starting at 8 a.m. Urging every resident to "get out" before ...

Tropical Storm Gustav drenched Haiti today and menaced Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, while setting a likely course for the U.S. Gulf Coast region devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago.

The trees growing in a Belle Chasse citrus grove are healthy -- and it's owner, Ricky Becnel, wants to make sure they stay that way.

A squad of St. Charles Parish officials and a duo from the Army Corps of Engineers did the best they could to answer Destrehan residents' questions Wednesday night about changes to a barge fleeting operation at ...

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The Port of New Orleans Dock Board has awarded two contracts totaling more than $5 million for improvements to the Alabo Street Wharf to expand the facility, which handles steel and other metals.

Workers removed the bulk of the leftover oil from a wrecked fuel barge in the Mississippi River by Tuesday evening, recovering more than 100,000 gallons that had remained inside the barge since it was ripped ...

The Coast Guard has said the sunken barge in the Mississippi River has shifted and is leaking oil again.

Thick black smoke that was billowing around noon near the Jefferson-Plaquemines parish line is the result of a controlled burned being conducted by the Jefferson Parish Fire Department and does not pose a ...

Thunderstorms and rain Friday provided a setback on work needed to haul a wrecked, and occasionally leaking, barge out of the Mississippi River.

A plan to increase the number of barges moored at Brown's Curve in Destrehan will be reviewed by the St.

The Coast Guard announced it will allow an additional 60 ships to travel through the 100-mile closed section of the Mississippi River today, and officials expect the river to be fully reopened to commerce by ...

Workers along the Mississippi River try to contain the hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel oil from a barge and ship collision on Wednesday.

The Jackson/Gretna, Canal/Algiers, Chalmette and Pointe' a la Hache ferries will remain out of service today because of Wednesday's collision between a tanker and barge in the Mississippi River that caused a ...

Transportation authorities have resumed service on the Gretna-Jackson Avenue and Belle Chasse ferries this morning.

Due to the barge accident on the Mississippi River this morning, Plaquemines Parish has closed all ferry traffic on the Belle Chasse Ferry until further notice.

This fall's race for the Division I seat on 24th Judicial District Court bench is down to three candidates after one withdrew.

The Port of New Orleans has awarded contracts for improvements at the Alabo Street Terminal.

A West Bank legislator has questioned why Gov. Bobby Jindal would veto legislation that would have provided more minority representation on the 24th Judicial District Court.

Gov. Bobby Jindal cleared his desk Tuesday of all legislation lawmakers sent him from the recent session, signing into law a bill to set up a state agency to look at transferring control of Louis Armstrong ...