Constitutional amendments explained
Yes vote —
Would disallow the governor or legislature from redirecting money from the Medicaid trust fund for the elderly to help balance the state budget.
No vote —
Leave the possibility that money could be taken from the fund to balance the state budget instead of being spent on healthcare for the elderly.
Thousands of children will don their scariest outfits and head to neighborhoods around the parish on Wednesday, hoping that they might be able to put enough fright in those homeowners to be rewarded with bags full of candy. […]
St. Charles Parish Councilman Dennis Nuss will step down from his council seat on Dec. 4 to pursue a career opportunity in the Houston area.
Parish President V.J. St. Pierre has released his proposed budget for 2013, which includes $22.6 million set aside for the construction of the West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee.
Along the westbound portion of Highway 90 near the parish line between St. Charles and Jefferson, prisoners from the Nelson Coleman Correctional Center pick up roadside trash. […]
A St. Charles Parish jury needed only 13 minutes to find a St. Rose man guilty of possession with intent to distribute cocaine on Monday.
The Motiva refineries in Norco and Convent have agreed to a tentative settlement with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for hundreds of violations of the Clean Air Act.
Gamblers in St. Charles Parish continue to dump loads of money on video poker, with nearly $30 million spent on the machines in the last year.
A 30-year-old Popeye’s employee in Destrehan was robbed on Saturday night while emptying the garbage cans outside the business, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office.
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