Norco News

The asphalt two-lane road between Norco and Montz in St.Charles Parish was closed Monday after the river level at the spillway rose to 13.31 feet at the Carrollton gauge in New Orleans, up .34 feet from Sunday.

Construction of the open-air Dow Palmetto Classroom at Wetland Watchers Park was photographed in November.

The captain of a Greek shipping vessel moored off the Bonnet Carre Spillway in St.

ST. CHARLES PARISH, La. - Mississippi River levees in St. Charles Parish will boast extended recreational paths as a result of two recently awarded state grants.

The eastbound entrance ramp to Interstate 310 from Airline Drive remains closed this morning because of high water.

All public schools in St. Charles Parish are closed Tuesday. Also, due to the overnight rains, all Catholic schools in St.

River Road traffic passes beneath the Valero Refining pipe bridge that will be raised from 13 feet 2 inches above River Road to 18 feet 10 inches.

Frequent accidents at 10 of the state's biggest refineries resulted in the release of millions of pounds of toxic chemicals into the air and millions of gallons of polluted water into state water courses between 2005 and 2008, according to a report to be released this morning by the Louisiana Bucket Brigade .

The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in the River Parishes, although for a while it appeared that nature and a multimillion dollar state project were conspiring to steal a couple of our holiday traditions.

When this photo was taken in 2002, bike path pavement stopped at the Jefferson Parish line.

High-profile attorney Joe Bruno made headlines as far away as Italy and Germany on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled in favor of a claim he filed on behalf of three New Orleans-area plaintiffs blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet for directly causing flood damage after Hurricane ...

The Norco Christmas Parade on Sunday, Dec., 6, would have been disrupted if the Hale Boggs Bridge were to close on that day.

Norco businessman Burnell Moliere was sentenced to three years of probation last week for helping a former Orleans Parish School Board member cash a check that the federal government asserted was a bribe.

Proposed cap and trade laws to stem the production of greenhouse gases will have an outsized effect on industrial manufacturers in the River Parishes, economist Loren Scott told an economic development forum on Monday.

Volunteer Robert Gensure with the Rotary Club of St. Charles nails a board into a boardwalk at Wetland Watchers Park in the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Norco in October, 2008.

The Louisiana Department of Education released school and district performance scores Tuesday, basking in a statewide improvement of 4.7 points, from 86.3 in 2008, to 91 in 2009.

The first phase of Wetland Watchers Park , delayed since June because of wetlands permits, may get under way within 10 days, said John Campo, the project's architect.

Construction is under way for a barrier along Airline Drive t o keep motorists out of the canal alongside it, but high water in the canal is slowing the work.

St. Charles Parish voters will decide whether to renew property taxes supporting medical services, the parish's nine volunteer fire departments and road construction in an Oct.

Sixteen St. Charles Parish homes that have flooded several times will be raised to a higher elevation under a federal program designed to stop repetitive flood claims.