Gaseous hydrochloric acid leaked from a pipe at Westlake Chemical's vinyl chloride monomer unit in Ascension Parish, creating a visible haze Wednesday afternoon to the north of the plant across a highway, company officials said Thursday.
GONZALES — Jaris Howard, convicted of fatally shooting his wife while their child was in the home, failed to change his past ways of criminality in the lead-up the 2014 shooting, had no right to take her life and so must serve a maximum prison ter…
NAPOLEONVILLE — Assumption Parish sheriff's deputies recently caught up with and arrested the last of two New Orleans men wanted in an attempted armed robbery nearly five years ago in a quiet part of the rural parish.
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Murder suspect Blayson Fife returned to his alleged victim’s home in Walker at least four times over the course of a month both leading up and following the burglary-turned-homicide for which he’s standing trial, according to testimony Thursday be…
A release of hydrogen chloride gas was reported Wednesday afternoon at the Westlake Chemical plant on La. 30 in Ascension Parish, but the release has been confined to the plant and there have been no injuries or evacuations, according to the paris…
Louisiana Wildlife Federation is partnering with National Wildlife Federation's Garden For Wildlife program to increase habitat for backyard wildlife species and protect pollinator populations in Louisiana.
Free dental services offered to military members
Dutchtown High School Griffins football team has optimism in 2019
Ascension Christian Lions look forward to district competition
Ascension Parish sheriff's deputies held a Baton Rouge man of Hispanic descent for four days after a judge ordered him released on a misdemeanor drunken driving count last year while authorities checked his immigration status, even though they alr…
The following people were booked into the Ascension Parish jail Aug. 8-15:
Members of a serve team from Healing Place Church spent a day volunteering at Prairieville Primary School recently. Church members cleaned, moved furniture, set up classrooms and bulletin boards, and sorted through jackets and uniforms.
The Ascension Public Schools broke ground Aug. 13 for Bluff Ridge Primary School on La. 73 in Prairieville. The school is expected to open in 2020. Its mascot will be the Falcons, with school colors of navy and gray.
Lester Lee, an independent LPL Financial adviser at LDFwealth Financial Group in Baton Rouge, has announced his inclusion in LPL’s Patriot’s Club. The award is presented to less than 8% of the firm’s more than 16,000 financial advisers nationwide,…
GONZALES — A tiny creature Peggy Carbo calls "Swamp Thing" is included in every of the Connecticut native's paintings.
The Donaldsonville City Council recently honored winners of the Miss Juneteenth pageant.
The sixth class of the Donaldsonville Mayor's Youth Advisory Council was inducted Aug. 13 during a City Council meeting.
During LSU's summer commencement, 23 students graduated with honors, including two students who received a University Medal for graduating with the highest undergraduate grade-point average in the class.
The Ascension Parish School Board combined a meeting with a ribbon-cutting at the new home for the district's APPLe Digital Academy in Sorrento.
Twenty-third Judicial District Attorney Ricky Babin has reorganized management responsibilities among some of his staff after the recent retirement of longtime investigator and top administrator Billy Clark.
PRAIRIEVILLE — Workers will be readjusting traffic flow through the La. 42/La. 44 intersection Thursday as part of a $27.5 million construction project to widen nearly four miles of La. 42 through Ascension Parish.
A Sorrento man wanted in a homicide case surrendered Tuesday to authorities, Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre said.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish Councilman Travis Turner won a third term in office after his opponent withdrew about a week after qualifying had ended.
NAPOLEONVILLE — A Paincourtville man has been arrested in a rape and armed robbery that happened in May, the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office announced Monday.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish's former planning director accused his old department of failing to ensure neighborhood developers followed 2013 subdivision construction rules designed to make more pedestrian friendly and green communities and called …
GONZALES — Byron Hill, one of two Republican candidates for Ascension Parish sheriff, accused the interim sheriff and his predecessor of politically based law enforcement decisions, a top heavy administration and undermanned operations in which th…
Donaldsonville High School Tigers football team is ready to roar
Senior Datjuan Harris shows leadership on Donaldsonville High School Tigers football team
The following people were booked into the Ascension Parish jail Aug. 1-8:
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Prairieville student Dencil Powell, a senior majoring in environmental sciences at Oregon State University, is one of the 4,352 OSU students who made the B-plus Scholastic Honor Roll this spring.
On Aug. 6, Councilman Bill Dawson qualified for reelection to the Ascension Parish Council District 2 seat.
Nine community leaders traded their business attire for sequins, fringe, feathers and fancy hats to dance across the stage Saturday during the diamond anniversary edition of the Arc of East Ascension's Dancing For A Cause.
Byron Hill, 37, said he has the law enforcement experience necessary to be the next Ascension Parish Sheriff.
Jeff Pettit, 64, says frustration with irresponsible growth in the parish led him to seek the Ascension Parish Council District 10 seat.
GONZALES — A police officer attempting to arrest a man involved in a fight at a Gonzales park suffered minor injuries after he was dragged by a vehicle Monday night, authorities said.
GONZALES — Former LSU student-athlete and U.S. Olympian Jason Williams was presented the keys to his hometown of Gonzales on Monday by the mayor and council in honor of his upcoming induction into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish Councilman Aaron Lawler and Recreation Director B.J. Romano engaged in a shouting match after a recent public meeting over the condition of a children's playground area that grew so heated another administration officia…
NAPOLEONVILLE — A man already in jail on a felony sex crime case involving a juvenile is facing new counts of second-degree rape and molestation of another juvenile after being indicted by a grand jury, Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon said.
The former president of the Vacherie Volunteer Fire Department used $56,500 in department money for personal purposes over a two-year period, a new investigative audit says.
GONZALES — Attorneys for a Gonzales insurance company say Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa may have committed a state ethics violation by being a plaintiff in a suit to recoup nearly $182,000 in legal fees for his defense against a March 2…
Martin "Marty" Triche, the police jury president in Assumption Parish for 27 years, did not seek reelection and was one of a handful of local politicians who chose not to qualify for elections Oct. 12.
Three protesters of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline challenged a Louisiana law aimed and protecting "critical infrastructure," saying in a lawsuit filed Friday that they were arrested in violation of their free speech and other civil rights.
GONZALES — A state district judge extended on Friday a ruling that frees builders in Ascension Parish to continue using fill dirt to raise homes and businesses.
Longtime Ascension Parish homeland security director Rick Webre, the brother of interim Sheriff Bobby Webre, has resigned from his office and entered a wide-open field for parish president as the incumbent, embattled Parish President Kenny Matassa…
Ascension Parish says $60 M loan for sewer at risk if Parish Council fails to act; some want to wait
GONZALES — In January 2009, Cedric Grant, at that time the Ascension Parish chief administrative officer, announced parish government would seek millions of dollars in federal loans through the state Department of Environmental Quality for a new r…
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