PRAIRIEVILLE - Residents at the end of Terraceside Drive were evacuated for a part of Sunday, then allowed to return home as firefighters worked a fire burning in a wooded area behind their neighborhood.
Three members of the Ascension Parish Council were unopposed, while Ascension Parish President Clint Cointment drew two challengers as the qualifying period for the Oct. 14 election closed in the afternoon Aug. 10.
Iberville Parish President J. Mitchell Ourso said he wants more information before joining a request for an audit on the Louisiana Watershed Initiative.