Venice News

Plaquemines Parish residents will receive an update from federal officials Thursday about the status of a levee project stretching from New Orleans to Venice, and how officials plan to replace wetlands and forests damaged by the work.

A 50-year, $50 billion plan for restoring Louisiana's eroding coast , along with the annual plan for the coming year, won the unanimous support from the Louisiana House of Representatives on Tuesday, the last hurdle in a sometimes-contentious process that began in January.

BURAS, La. - A potential crisis has been averted in Plaquemines Parish as the parish council finally approved a massive Westbank levee project.

The tide and wind were right, and the fishing reports were excellent: Grand Isle anglers had been taking limits of fat speckled trout "along the beach." So when guide Danny Ray, owner/operator of Calmwater Charters, pointed his big cat boat south in Caminada Pass heading for the Gulf seashore, I was excited -- until I looked east, then west.

As the oil seeps from the capsized carcass of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig 52 miles off Venice, La., and the bdies of 11 workers remain undiscovered in the Gulf of Mexico, the incredible stupidity of recent White House approval for drilling off the coast of Florida is dramatized in a way nothing else can.

As the oil seeps from the capsized carcass of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig 52 miles off Venice, La., and the bdies of 11 workers remain undiscovered in the Gulf of Mexico, the incredible stupidity of recent White House approval for drilling off the coast of Florida is dramatized in a way nothing else can.