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The feasting of Thanksgiving behind us, its time to look ahead to the celebration of Christmas and seasonal events sponsored by area churches and organizations.

Anyway, the wife has been assigned the task of creating a rich cornbread dressing for the bird. She started early, assembling the ingredients, and it is barely an exaggeration that we had to drive out of state to find some of them.

Construction of the first phase of a new wetlands education center in Houma should be complete by early fall. "Rain has sort of pushed our schedule back, and so were looking at more of a substantial completion being done in August -- fingers crossed," said Jonathan Foret, executive director of the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center. "If we have weeks and weeks of rain and hurricanes and things like that, then that could back us up a little bit more." The center, on 2.4 acres at 86 Valhi...

The Rougarou Fest, one of Houma-Thibodauxs largest annual events, has unveiled this years commemorative poster, created by a Los Angeles-based artist whose body painting has been celebrated around the world. Pashur House has been called "the Picasso of body painting." His poster depicts the mythical, werewolf-like Rougarou strutting through cypress forest surrounded by other swamp dwellers like Beignet the nutria, a guitar-playing alligator and a costumed owl dubbed the "Rougarou Queen."  S...

LA SAFE's goal is not just to respond to the crisis, but to give residents agency and hope.

Share Darlene Turner is an Inupiaq Eskimo living on a battle line. Not the military kind, the climate change kind. With less sea ice to buffer storms, the ocean is washing away chunks of her village and its residents have made a difficult decision to relocate. “Would you relocate?” she asks. Experts believe stories like Turner’s are just a precursor to a massive migratory trend that could have millions of Americans on the move before mid-century. In this episode of "Things That Go Boom," ...

Wetlands Discovery Center breaks ground on Houma education center The South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center broke ground in its new Wetlands Nature exhibit in Houma on Thursday, the first step in what the center hopes will be an educational and recreational destination. The project is the first action in the first phase of a hands-on learning center focused on teaching about land preservation and coastal restoration in innovative ways. The ceremony was a long time coming, according to Jon...