Almost a year ago, Mayor Freddie DeCourt sent a letter to the State Department of Transportation and Development concerning the closing of a railroad crossing on Caroline Street.
Two railroad crossings in New Iberia are set to close. They are located on Caroline and Providence Streets. This comes after a back-and-forth dispute between city council members and DOTD.
The New Iberia City Council narrowly approved a resolution that Mayor Freddie DeCourt hopes will move forward a 17-year-old railroad issue with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development at
About R500,000 worth of perlemoen was recovered at the weekend after police and K9 unit members sniffed out a group of poachers carrying a big haul of protected molluscs.