The upgrades are part of a three-year parish-wide project aimed at improving infrastructure across all schools.

Vermilion Parish officials are monitoring weather conditions, providing sandbags and flood reporting numbers, and are not issuing evacuation orders or opening shelters.

A move to finally tie West Feliciana Parish’s land development code to a new zoning map failed by a single vote at a July 14 Parish Council meeting.

The largest residential annexation in recent years in Sanford, but maybe ever, was approved 6-1 Tuesday, July 15, with Councilman Charles Taylor voting no. The Cherokee Land Co. and the Dalrymple and ...