Morgan City News

It's been a year since New Orleans started using speed enforcement cameras. They have busted more than 25,000 speeders, generating more than $3 million in fines.

Due to extremely high temperatures over the last few days, Lafayette Utilities System and SLEMCO are currently experiencing a heavy demand for electricity which is causing constraints on the transmission lines serving the Acadiana region.

The owner of the Evangeline Downs race track says its has agreed to buy the Amelia Belle riverboat casino near Morgan City for $106.5 million.

News and views from the Louisiana Capitol Thursday, June 18, 2009 TOP OF THE NEWS Birth records bill remains on hold Swine flu outbreak rattles lawmakers House committee pushes for more emergency shelters AROUND THE CAPITOL Birth records bill delay With the Senate occupied with budget matters this week, a controversial bill related to Louisiana ...

The State Bond Commission on Thursday approved $4.8 million in bonds for the city of Youngsville for sewerage system improvements.

The Coast Guard medevaced a 50-year-old man from a fishing vessel, 30 miles south of Morgan City, La., Monday, June 15, 2009.

The Senate on Thursday gave final legislative approval to a bill that would give some teacher and state employee retirees living at the poverty level a boost in their pension checks.

Leah Katherine Breaux and Justin Paul Simon were united in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony on June 6, 2009 at 1 p.m. at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Lafayette.

Given the burden of funding the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students, or TOPS, it is understandable that some lawmakers might want to review the program, including its high cost - $130 million a year now - and outcomes.

State lawmakers are one step closer to officially backing a federal consumer protection law that could help ease your credit card woes.

On the day before the start of hurricane season, hundreds of people gathered at a marina in downtown Houma to focus attention on Louisiana's vanishing coast and wetlands.

A south Louisiana lawmaker's proposal to limit awards from the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students awards is up for debate by a state Senate Committee.

BATON ROUGE - A Senate committee on Thursday rejected a bill that would have capped the amount of money college-bound Louisiana high school graduates can get under the state's Taylor Opportunity Program for Students.

Louisiana residents will toot their horns Sunday to draw attention to coastal wetlands loss and the role wetlands play in hurricane protection.

With our students and faculty getting ready to end their school year; I would like to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude for the outstanding volunteer work shown to our servicemen and women overseas and the local Veterans who are in our local VA hospitals and homes this Memorial Day.

General Motors dealers in Acadiana seemed to have survived the company's first round of cuts Friday.

Healthcare nursing home on Chinaberry Street was evacuated after reports of fire.

Leeville- A 27 year old Galliano man died after colliding his pickup truck head-on with an 18-wheeler on LA 1 south of Golden Meadow near Leeville.

Tara Kristen Shilling and Matthew Chance Kennedy were united in marriage on March 28, 2009, at the Florence Club.

NEW ORLEANS With more than $200 million in cuts potentially coming to higher education, Northshore Rep.