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PRAIRIEVILLE — Kindergartner Owen D'Aquin rode with his parents in the carpool line for his first day at Bluff Ridge Primary, one of two new schools that opened Monday morning in Ascension Parish.
PRAIRIEVILLE — Kindergartner Owen D'Aquin rode with his parents in the carpool line for his first day at Bluff Ridge Primary, one of two new schools that opened Monday morning in Ascension Parish.
A 33-year-old Gonzales man riding a motorcycle was struck and killed in Ascension Parish early Saturday, according to Louisiana State Police.
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When public schools open Monday in Ascension Parish, the middle school and high school students will be learning both in the classroom and from home.
Ascension Parish Councilman Joel Robert offered one more apology Thursday night to the council secretary for his expletive-laden voicemail last month after he helped sponsor a resolution censuring himself for his words.
Nearly a month after it started, the federal surge testing effort for the novel coronavirus ended Wednesday in Baton Rouge as the supply of 60,000 tests provided to the region have been nearly used up.
GONZALES — One candidate for Donaldsonville City Council was disqualified Wednesday and another was allowed to stay in his race.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said the state can "strike the right balance" between economic development and the environment while continuing to encourage new businesses and industries to Louisiana.
June 30 marked the end of the Rotary of Gonzales year and ushered in the 52nd year of the club.
Beginning Aug. 1, properly licensed Louisiana and nonresident hunters may take outlaw quadrupeds (feral hogs, coyotes and armadillos), nutria and beaver at night on private property the entire year with the landowner’s permission, a news release said.
Pelican State Credit Union is one of five credit unions in Louisiana with the ability to offer Small Business Administration loans to help businesses keep their doors open and continue to compensate their employees during the coronavirus pandemic,…
The following people were booked into the Ascension Parish Jail on July 23-30:
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Court cases filed in Ascension Parish on July 5-10:
The annual Arc of East Ascension's Dancing For A Cause fundraiser event is going virtual, and needs dancers.
Willie M. Robinson, a local real estate Broker and co-owner of Ascension Realty of Louisiana LLC and co-founder of The Blue Foundation, has announced his candidacy for the Gonzales Council Division C seat.
The Leadership Ascension program is accepting applications for its upcoming program.
The 2020 Run for the Badge 5K will be held globally as a virtual event to keep participants safe and healthy and offer more opportunities to create awareness and support for the National Law Enforcement Memorial and Museum, according to a news release.
An Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office deputy died Saturday morning after a weeks-long battle with the coronavirus.
DONALDSONVILLE — Contractor Glenn L. Price, a leading challenger to incumbent Donaldsonville Mayor Leroy Sullivan, is awaiting a jury trial on a two-year-old felony theft charge in West Baton Rouge Parish and, if elected this fall, might even take…
SORRENTO — With cars, trucks and 18-wheelers passing behind them, state and local officials on Monday marked the completion of a $5.6 million highway roundabout at a busy intersection in Ascension Parish that is a major route to the growing indust…
Mauro Rojas had been looking forward to a few family trips he planned to take this year and had been working at chemical plants to save up money for starting an aquarium business to support his young family.
The city of Gonzales took two giant steps in recent weeks toward having a performing arts and conference center: buying a 5-acre site in early July and then applying for an $8.5 million construction loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rur…
An Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office deputy died Saturday morning after a weeks-long battle with with the coronavirus.
GONZALES — After an Ascension Parish Council member left an expletive-laden voice mail with a parish employee Thursday night, the council chairwoman says she will seek a public censure of him.
A Livingston man died in a two-vehicle crash early Tuesday morning on La. 30 in Ascension Parish, State Police Troop A reported.
It's not too late to donate school supplies or money to Volunteer Ascension's School Tools Drive, which supplies paper, pencils, crayons and other needed items to school children around Ascension Parish.
Hagen Reitzell and Douglas Frey had deer hunts in the fall of 2019 that they’ll never forget. Both 8 years old, they harvested their first deer, both doing so while hunting with their fathers.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is accepting applications for deer and waterfowl lottery hunts on LDWF Wildlife Management Areas for the 2020-2021 hunting season.
Ascension public schools officials have announced an amendment to a policy for serving meals to students under the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs for the 2020‐2021 school year.
The following people were booked into the Ascension Parish Jail on July 16-23:
Ascension library reopens
Tamiko Francis-Garrison is running for the Ascension Parish justice of the peace, first justice court office.
Weichert Realtors – Villar and Company, in Prairieville, held its annual awards luncheon on June 23 at the Clarion Inn/Mike Anderson's Restaurant, in Gonzales.
Two Ascension parish athletes were part of a volleyball team that went to the recent 47th annual AAU volleyball championships in Orlando.
The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office has awarded four high school graduates scholarships that can be used toward the cost of college tuition, fees or books for the upcoming school year.
The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office 911 Center is receiving more accurate location data for calls utilizing the RapidSOS Clearinghouse.
On July 21, Sheriff Bobby Webre named Coroner Dr. John Fraiche and Our Lady of the Lake Ascension medical director Dr. Chris Trevino as July Honorary Sheriffs for the Month.
After 18 seasons and more than 300 wins, Dutchtown High girls basketball coach Annette Lowery submitted her resignation late last week.
A Formosa Plastics affiliate planning to build a $9.4 billion chemical complex in St. James Parish can continue preliminary work on its more than 2,300-acre site under a new court deal reached with opponents suing to block the facility.
A third challenger to East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome filed paperwork Thursday to appear on the Nov. 3 ballot.
A former Ascension Parish tractor operator who has been charged with felony theft over $2,800 in alleged personal spending on his parish fuel card now also faces a state ethics count arising from the same allegations.
GONZALES - State Rep. Johnny Berthelot, who served as mayor of Gonzales for 24 years, is running for a seat on the Gonzales City Council in the Nov. 3 election.
GONZALES — An Iowa-based company that converts waste oil into renewable diesel fuel is considering a $1.2 billion project that would triple the size of its Geismar facility and is seeking an exemption from property taxes in Ascension Parish before…
Kirk Boudreaux has announced his campaign for reelection to the Gonzales City Council's Division B seat.
Ascension Parish plans to begin drawing down water levels in some bayous and other waterways on the parish's east bank Wednesday morning in preparation for a tropical wave expected to enter the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
The following people were booked into the Ascension Parish Jail on July 9-16:
Ascension library closes after staffs test positive for coronavirus
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Neighbors FCU launched the Every Swipe Counts campaign to raise $30,580 for the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank.
In many Catholic churches, the sins or secrets of parishioners were whispered in a confessional, a box or booth usually at the back of the church.
For more than a year, Ascension Parish government's 3,400 water customers in the city of Donaldsonville have been paying higher rates intended to finance $17.5 million in upgrades for their aged system.