Investors eye new tank farm on western St. James Parish land, will try land use process for approval
LAPLACE — Two years after residents successfully fought plans for a 10 million-barrel oil storage site in western St. James Parish, two compan…
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GONZALES — After nearly a year of public debate, it appears Ascension Parish voters won't get to decide this December whether to keep its elec…
Two Gonzales police officers so seriously kicked and manhandled a handcuffed Convent man who had been sprayed with mace that he hit his head o…
DONALDSONVILLE — Authorities captured two men wanted in a July 7 drive-by shooting in Ascension Parish that injured three people, sheriff's de…
GONZALES — Walking away from the Ascension Parish Courthouse a free man, Parish President Kenny Matassa said he was "going back to work" after…
GONZALES — Olin Berthelot, the co-defendant in an election bribery case that ensnared Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa, agreed on the …
Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa acquitted in bribery trial: 'I believe in the legal system'
Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa was acquitted Wednesday of election bribery allegations that lingered over him and his administration…
GONZALES — Prosecutors asked a state district judge Tuesday to hold Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa accountable for an alleged briber…
GONZALES — Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa heads to trial Tuesday afternoon on bribery allegations and is expected to face testimony …
Nearly six years after the catastrophic failure of a salt mine caused the Bayou Corne sinkhole, a company is planning two new massive mines in…