Montegut News

Federal investigators say they are close to obtaining indictments against companies they accuse of repackaging imported shrimp in an attempt to pass it off as wild-caught U.S. product.

A crane collapse this afternoon at a Houma business left a 30-year-old worker dead and another in critical condition, according to the Terrebonne Sheriff's Office.

One worker was killed and another was seriously injured when a crane collapsed at an industrial building in south Louisiana.

Signs will point out Terrebonne's entrances That's what local government and business officials want visitors to see when they enter the parish.

Voters will head to the polls today to decide the fate of two Terrebonne property taxes.

Voters across Terrebonne will head to the polls Saturday to decide whether to renew a parishwide property tax that helps pay for garbage collection and sewer service.

The following is a press release from Terrebonne Parish on the parish's preparations for Hurricane Ida.

By elevating homes, building new communities and evacuating together ahead of storms, members of a local American Indian tribe are adapting to their ever-eroding surroundings.

Due chiefly to the recent death of Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy, the official list of America's longest-serving senators had to be slightly reshuffled last week, but it still includes a choice spot for one of Terrebonne Parish's best-known native sons.

Tim Davenport watches as a section of a boat is removed from Bayou Terrebonne Wednesday afternoon below Montegut.

Louisiana State Police say a pickup truck swerved to avoid a pit bull and hit at least five people in a Montegut yard - and the dog.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents assigned to the Oyster Strike Force cited 22 men on Sept.

A 39-year-old man electrocuted Sunday morning in Montegut was vacationing in a travel trailer with relatives and repairing his storm-damaged fishing camp, police said.

HOUMA, La. - A 39-year-old man was killed as he was diconnecting a travel trailer from its power source at a camp in Montegut, according to his relatives and local authorities.

Donald Bourg sat restless in his living room, a treadmill folded nearby. He used to run a mile on the machine before his shift with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office - two miles, on his days off.

Terrebonne was ground zero for Hurricane Gustav, which did more structural damage in the parish than any storm since Hurricane Betsy.

A judge has refused to lower the $2 million bond for an 18-year-old booked with attempted first-degree murder in last month's shooting of a Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's deputy.

Deputy Donald Bourg and his wife, Mary Bourg, share a laugh in their Gray home last week.

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A Montegut man and a teenager are accused of having guns stolen by a teenager who allegedly shot a deputy last week.