Maurepas News

Sharks have been spotted and caught recently in the Manchac Pass that separates Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas, but boaters and fisherman say it's been happening more on the western edge of Lake Maurepas in Livingston Parish.

TV News 2 Louisiana will air its hurricane special "Weathering the Storm" at 7 tonight .

A man who was forced to tread water for nearly five hours after his boat sank on Lake Maurepas was fortunately rescued by Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries agents.

A Livingston man who treaded water for nearly seven hours was rescued by two agents from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries late Wednesday night.

The Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office Detective's Division is searching for a woman in connection with a series of thefts in the Maurepas and French Settlement areas of southern Livingston Parish.

Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies recovered the body of a Maurepas man who drowned in the lower Amite River early Saturday morning, deputies said Monday.

A Livingston Parish man is in jail after sheriff's deputies say a company that works on computers found child porn on his computer.

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St. John the Baptist Parish authorities arrested a 29-year-old man wanted in connection with the killing of a Reserve woman after a botched robbery attempt.

St. John the Baptist Parish authorities are looking for a 22-year-old Maurepas man in connection with the killing of a woman during a botched robbery, a Sheriff's Office spokesman said Wednesday.

St. John Sheriff's Office deputies are searching for a murder suspect wanted for a shooting that left one woman dead and a man injured, according to a statement from the sheriff's office.

Louisiana is running out of time to rebuild its eroding coast, and for that reason, progress on the $1.9 billion coastal restoration plan that Congress adopted in 2007 is vitally important.

Environmental studies have begun on five major coastal erosion projects, signaling their construction could start by 2011.

There was tragedy on the roadways early Christmas morning. State police are investigating a deadly, alcohol-related hit-and-run crash that happened on Airline Hwy.