Maurepas News

As Hurricane Ida continues on a northward trek into the Gulf, local emergency officials say they don't expect any major effects from what is anticipated to be a minimal hurricane at landfall.

A trail of blood led sheriff's deputies to a suspected burglar Tuesday evening. Deputies were responding to a burglar alarm at a home on Swan Street in Maurepas when they noticed a broken window, a puddle of blood and a small amount of hair around the window.

In advance of President Barack Obama's visit to New Orleans this week, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation released a report today outlining the lack of progress on several critical coastal restoration projects in wetlands east and west of the city.

Four people have been arrested in two separate meth lab busts Monday near Maurepas and Walker.

The man overseeing construction at a new Livingston Parish school says he wants the seven kids accused of vandalism to help clean up the mess.

Two dozen canoes carrying more than 50 people might seem like a crowd, but as soon as our flotilla set off on a guided expedition into the Manchac wetlands, we seemed swallowed by its immensity and secluded within its wilds.

A pick-up truck blasts through the flooded street in June 2008, pushing a wave of water toward Uptown homes.

Deputies arrested on Thursday a man accused of finding marijuana plants growing in his yard and taking care of them to have pot to smoke, the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office reported Friday.

State police say a driver suspected of immigration violations is being held in jail on negligent homicide and other charges after a fatal hit & run crash.

Louisiana State Police Troop A responded to a Hit and Run fatal crash last night in Ascension Parish just after 6:30 pm.

A Maurepas man died after falling overboard from his boat in the Diversion Canal around 6:00 Monday evening, according to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Officials say a Maurepas man drowned when he got tangled in the nets he cast into the Amite River Diversion Canal.

Three men have been arrested and charged following the discovery of a meth lab Thursday evening by Livingston Parish detectives and the Tri-Parish Task Force.

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.