For the last nine months, the small community of Ironton has been feverishly working to come back from Hurricane Isaac’s devastation, and on May 5, [...]

Fresh from a trip to Washington D.C. with representatives from 13 other parishes, District 5 Councilman Anthony Buras offered a resolution asking Louisiana federal delegation to modify the Biggert-Waters Act in order to provide premium relief to residents and businesses. The resolution passed unanimously. Buras, Councilchair Byron Marinovich and local insurance agent Bill Bubrig represented [...]

Hundreds of concerned fishermen attended the second meeting of the Save Louisiana Coalition last Monday night to get informed on what coalition leaders say is the biggest issue facing fisheries today: large-scale freshwater and sediment diversions. The Louisiana Coastal Master Plan, approved last year, has several large-scale diversions slated for Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes. [...]

It looks like traffic cameras will not be coming to Plaquemines Parish quite yet, as the council deferred the vote on the speed and stop sign photo enforcement system. In a statement released before the April 25 meeting, Commander Eric Becnel stated that “due to misinformation in the public, Sheriff Lonnie Greco has respectfully requested [...]

With sunny skies and a backdrop of blue and yellow ships waiting for their crews, over 100 Daybrook Fisheries employees and their families gathered together at the plant in Empire on April 14 to kick off another successful pogie season. Before the fishing crews were sent off, Father Joseph Tran walked the dock sprinkling holy [...]

The controversial traffic cameras despised by many Orleans and Jefferson Parish drivers could soon be coming to Plaquemines. An ordinance bringing the cameras was introduced on behalf of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office by District 9 Councilwoman Marla Cooper at the April 11 council meeting. It can be voted on as soon as the April [...]

Three years after the worst oil spill in U.S. History, scientists worry about long-term effects on wetlands and wildlife. The shoreline of Bay Jimmy, one of the most dramatic disaster sites during the BP Oil Spill, looks a lot different today than it did three years ago. It is no longer smothered in thick black [...]

The council and administration made the first formal step last week to appeal FEMA’s 2012 flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs) that if implemented, would shoot base flood elevations South of Belle Chasse and on the Eastbank of Plaquemines up to as high as 21 feet. The ordinance passed unanimously, and authorizes Parish President Billy Nungesser [...]

It’s been three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill knocked the wind out of the commercial fishing industry in Plaquemines Parish. As local fishermen [...]

At a meeting last week of the St. Bernard Parish Council, life-long shrimper George Barisich, President of the United Commercial Fishermen Association urged the council to pass a resolution that supports the exemption of commercial fishermen from paying taxes on BP settlement money. After the St. Bernard council unanimously passed the resolution, Barisich said he [...]