Plaquemines Parish Arrest Reports

August 13, 2025Lamont M. Jones, 30, New Orleans: simple battery.August 14, 2025Tyrin Michael Reddick, 24, Buras: 2 bench warrants.August 16, 2025Antoine Mercadel, 37, New Orleans: fugitive warrants.

20 Years Later: Plaquemines Parish to Commemorate Hurricane Katrina Anniversary

On Friday, August 29, 2025, at 9:00 AM, the public is invited to gather at the Fort Jackson Museum and Welcome Center for an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina — honoring the lives lost, the resilience of our communities, and the recovery efforts that began right here.

August 11 Serves As Reminder For Louisiana Residents To Contact 811 Before Digging

Aug. 11 is gone, but Louisiana 811 hopes that the 8/11 date on the calendar will serve as a natural reminder for residents to contact 811 prior to any digging project to have underground utility lines marked.

FROM A RECOVERING POLITICIAN

The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project was Louisiana’s largest-ever coastal restoration initiative, designed to funnel up to 75,000 cubic feet per second of sediment-rich water from the Mississippi River into the Barataria Basin to rebuild wetlands - aiming to restore over 20+ square miles of...

Clear The Shelters: Give Every Pet a Chance This August

The Louisiana SPCA is thrilled to be part of the 11th annual Clear the Shelters campaign, a nationwide movement dedicated to finding loving homes for pets in need throughout August.

POINT OF VIEW

The Fall session of classes will soon begin at Nunez Community College. It is important to remember that Nunez is a blended institution. It teaches a full assortment of academic classes along with a great host of technical degrees and certificates.

Complexity Breeds Confusion

For decades, the Plaquemines Parish Government’s finance department would provide the newspaper a massive five or six-inch ring binder with hundreds of pages of departmental budgets. This process began long before computers, PDFs, and websites.

THE FORGOTTEN KITCHEN

I am an opera fan. My grandmother, my Nana, came to New Orleans from Palermo. She was 18 years old. She grew up at a time when opera was still popular music in Italy. As a young woman in New Orleans she sang with the amateur company that was the Italian Opera Company in New Orleans.

in the garden

Marsh Dawgs: Inspiring our Next Generation of Coastal ScientistsThis week's edition was written by Dominique Seibert of Louisiana Sea Grant Each year Louisiana Sea Grant, along with the 4-H programs in St. Bernard and Plaquemines, host Marsh Dawgs Youth Camp.