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The council voted at a special meeting on Wednesday night to lift a moratorium that was blocking the Covington Trace Ridge apartments from moving forward. Now. the developer, HRI Properties, can apply for permits to being construction.

The Slidell City Council will take up a resolution Tuesday night that will ask the St. Tammany coroner-elect to step down.

After more than six months, the St. Tammany Parish Council finally ended their investigation into Parish President Mike Coopers handling of a controversial apartment complex on the outskirts of Covington — with no findings of any wrongdoing.

Parish spokesman Michael Vinsanau said if the board has documents that are “a matter of public safety and public interest, we encourage them to release them.”

St. Tammany Parish government officials are speaking out about a WWL Louisiana investigation that uncovered decades-old child sexual assault charges against the coroner-elect, Dr. Christopher Tape.

A local TV news investigation revealed that Christopher Tape, who ran unopposed for the coroner position, was indicted on sexual assault charges in New Mexico in 2002.

St. Tammany elected officials have expressed concerns over the coroner-elect's history of sexual abuse allegations.

The Eaton County town of Woodbury is a far cry from how it appeared in the early 1900s. Here's a brief bio and some old photos of this little Michigan town...

Residents taps started to run dry on Wednesday. By midday Thursday, many were still without water. The utility, Magnolia Water, expects the water to start running again within hours.

The last parish council took parish president Mike Cooper to task over his administration’s handling of permits for the Covington Trace Ridge apartments near Covington. The new council, with its nine new members, opted not to close the last council’s investigation.