Cameron News

Planes, trains and hot air balloons set the scene for 'Around the World in Eighty Ways,' the Spectacular Ball of the Krewe d'Amusement. The krewe's fourth annual fete was held on Saturday, Jan.

One Vermilion Parish and two Cameron Parish coastal restoration projects are among nine approved for design or construction, Gov.

Officials have released the identity of a worker killed when a fire erupted on an offshore oil and gas processing platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 504 AM CST MON JAN 4 2010 ...HARD FREEZE WARNING FOR LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING... RESIDENTS MAY BEGIN TO START THINKING ABOUT HOW TO PROTECT PEOPLE...PIPES...PETS...AND PLANTS FROM THESE FREEZING TEMPERATURES.

The name E. Cameron Coffin may not ring a bell for many local residents, but Jennings Police Department officials will soon be making sure he gains a place in the city's long history - all thanks to one Southeast Louisiana man.

The parishes hardest hit from hurricanes Katrina and Rita have until the end of this year to apply for more than $1.2 billion remaining in a special pool of recovery bonds or face the prospect of losing that capacity to lesser affected storm areas, the director of the State Bond Commission said Friday.

CAMERON - U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany is asking President Obama to include southwest Louisiana on his upcoming trip to the Gulf Coast.

CAMERON - Officials held groundbreaking ceremonies last week for a new LSU AgCenter Cameron Parish extension office, to be rebuilt on the site of the previous facility, which had been destroyed by Hurricane Rita in 2005.

Two years later, Hurricane Ike brushed by on its way to Texas, again sending storm surge through much of southwest Louisiana.