New Roads News

U.S. Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux Jr. is joining the Long Law Firm L.L.P. in early July, the firm announced Tuesday morning.

The Capitol Park Museum is hosting two talks in July highlighting Louisiana's Acadian, Cajun and Creole heritage.

Bills merging Baton Rouge Community College with other campuses and aiding the redevelopment of Federal City in Algiers now are state law.

Since its birth in 1996, the I-20 Economic Development Commission has spurred $42 million in development in the City of Monroe.

Justice Catherine "Kitty" Kimball hugs two of her five grandchildren, Hudson Kimball, 10, left, and Catherine O'Brien, 6, after being sworn in as the first female Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court on the steps of the Louisiana Supreme Court building in the French Quarter Monday, January 12, 2009.

Sweet Ponchatoula strawberries, Ruston peaches, New Roads pecans and a bounty of fresh Gulf seafood are just a few reasons why south Louisiana is a delicious place to be a locavore.

When I saw the Monday Advocate headline "Snakes found in State Capitol," my first thought was to resist making any snarky comment about it - it was just TOO easy, like shooting snakes in a barrel.

Chef Cody Carroll of Hot Tails Restaurant in New Roads was crowned King of Louisiana Seafood after winning the 6th annual Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off. The competition was presented by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board.

Some restaurants go to great lengths to create atmosphere. At Morel's in New Roads, the length can be measured in a few feet.

Harelson and his partner, Richard Gibbs, had lived for 16 years in Florida, where Harelson, a horticulturist, owned a plant nursery, and Gibbs was Rosemary Beach town architect and vice president of the Rosemary Beach Land Co.

The City Council on Tuesday night approved a resolution asking the Pointe Coupee Parish Police Jury to overturn a resolution it recently adopted seeking to raise the amount of taxes New Roads residents pay for street and road improvements.