Lafitte News

The state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority on Monday reserved about $200 million from the 2009 state budget surplus to acquire land for 100-year levee projects in New Orleans.

Construction will begin Monday in Central City on 10 of 50 single-family homes that will be sold to low-income families, with preference given to former public housing tenants.

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.

This Friday is National Take Your Dog to Work Day. But don't tell Rover unless you get your boss' OK.

The Jefferson Parish Council is expected to ratify a landmark contract Wednesday to dispose of garbage at the River Birch Landfill in Waggaman for 25 years while closing the neighboring parish dump at an estimated savings of $19 million to $23 million.

This was just one small pile of debris left behind at Breton Sound Marina by Hurricane Gustav last year.

As bills that would expand Louisiana's smoking ban to gambling venues continue to smolder in the Legislature, casino officials are battling to avoid what they call an unfair financial burden.

Take a Jean Lafitte Swamp and Airboat Tour and see the picturesque moss-draped trees, alligators and other wildlife that define Louisiana swamps.

For the fifth year in a row, hikers trek the Lafitte Corridor Saturday, June 6, 2009, to raise awareness of the unused former shipping and railroad canal stretching three miles from Armstrong Park to Canal Boulevard.

Summer, for many, means a time to travel, explore new places, experience new things.

Taxi fee:Eliminated a $2 fuel surcharge for taxi rides. The fee had been in place since July when local average fuel costs reached a record $4 a gallon, nearly double current prices.

One month after a volatile meeting rife with complaints about the agency's disregard for public-housing leaders, the one-woman board of the Housing Authority of New Orleans on Wednesday approved a flurry of repair and construction plans.

New Orleans Police put up barriers around the body of a teenager shot to death in the courtyard of the Iberville Housing Development Friday afternoon.

The Pirates Lafitte: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf, William C. Davis, Harcourt, Inc., hardcover, 706pp, notes, index, photo insert.

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.

Politicians and community leaders gathered Friday in Marrero to celebrate the grand opening of a sprawling affordable-housing complex that officials are touting as the gold standard for mixed-income housing in Jefferson Parish.

The U.S. Interior Department plans to spend $4.3 million it got from the economic stimulus package on national parks and other projects in Louisiana.

'Shotgun' cast members, from left, Kenneth Brown Jr., Donna Duplantier and Lance E. Nichols.

Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard 's administration is circulating a survey to gauge public support for curbside garbage recycling.

A Senate committee today took the first steps toward helping get financing to rebuild a library on Grand Isle that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.