Donaldsonville News

A boat launch in the Bonnet Carre' Spillway that was damaged by the spillway opening last year will be back in business if the St.

In mid-December, the outgoing Ascension Parish Council gave the parish Planning and Zoning Commission the boot with nary a reason why.

NEW ORLEANS - The Army Corps of Engineers says it's keeping an eye on Mississippi River levees because the river is high.

The Ascension Parish Council ratified on Tuesday a slate of candidates to fill the parish Planning and Zoning Commission amid continuing criticism.

Ascension Parish government sales tax collections ended the fiscal year between 5.9 percent and 6.3 percent ahead of last year, a parish sales tax report says.

In Louisiana, life is tough for most people, struggling to find work and pay bills in a poor economy.

In Louisiana, life is tough for most people, struggling to find work and pay bills in a poor economy.

"A friend of mine was returning home from a fishing trip with his teenage son, who was sleeping in the back seat of the car.

The former president of Eatel and the former superintendent of Ascension Parish schools were the top ranked applicants recommended for a seat on the parish Planning and Zoning Commission.

Kacie Walker and Beau Vice, both of Gonzales, La., will marry in a 7:00 p.m. ceremony April 27, 2012 at Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church in Donaldsonville, La.

Over the course of the 19th century, political wrangling and the upheavals of the Civil War shifted the seat of Louisiana government 11 times among six cities.

A jury found a former Ascension Catholic High School teacher and basketball coach innocent of three counts of molestation of a juvenile, attorneys said.

The City Council will review ways to alter its five districts to move closer to ideal populations in each, councilmen said after receiving updated district demographics.

A wide-ranging plan to protect and restore Louisiana's coastline doesn't include St.

Fears of witness tampering and intimidation led Ascension Parish prosecutors to ask a court to keep the defendants in a July 3 Donaldsonville shootout from knowing the identities of key witnesses against them until the day of the trial, according to court filings.

Deputies are investigating a rash of nighttime vehicle break-ins committed earlier this month, the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office reported Tuesday.

People in neighborhoods off East Bayou Road in Donaldsonville are organizing Neighborhood Watch programs to try and stop a recent string of car burglaries.

The Ascension Parish Council is supporting an idea that would create an expressway on the Westbank of the Mississippi from I-10 in Port Allen to I-310 in Boutte.

Rendering provided by Bani, Carville & Brown Architects Inc. This architectural rendering shows how the Ascension Parish Clerk of Court's Office addition to the parish courthouse annex in Gonzales will look when complete.

The man arrested Tuesday by Gonzales police officers after he was found in the trunk of his estranged wife's car with a toy pistol, duct tape and plastic ties, had been arrested earlier this month by St.