A driver sped past four people walking down the street Monday night in Gonzales, got out and fired a gun at them, hitting two, police said.

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A leak of dangerous chlorine gas at a plant near Plaquemine was worse than it was reported to be at the time, regulators and parish officials said.
KC Road, an important cut-through between La. 621 and La. 74 north of Gonzales, will be closed for three weeks starting Tuesday, Ascension Par…
First-term Ascension Parish Councilman Joel Robert has been urging his colleagues for the past few months to consider term limits for themselv…
St. James Parish officials are taking another crack at a temporary, parish-wide moratorium on large-scale commercial solar farms while they st…
Premier South Roofing will contest nearly $250,000 in federal penalties over a worker's death from a fall in April and disputes an allegation …
Roy Maughan Jr., longtime attorney for rapper Mystikal, speaks Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, outside the Gonzales courthouse about an Ascension Paris…
Attorney for rapper Mystikal speaks about his disappointment with judge’s ruling on no bail for his client after rape arrest in Ascension Pari…
Mystikal, a New Orleans-raised rapper accused of beating, raping and robbing a woman during a financial dispute at his home in suburban Baton …
Premier South Roofing, a prominent Baton Rouge roofing company, faces nearly $250,000 in federal penalties after the company failed to heed re…