Two Houma News Today

Authorities are searching for a Houma man wanted in connection with a missing elderly resident.

Two Houma men have been charged in connection with the 2015 murder of a Bourg resident, authorities said.

Two Houma judges were honored by Louisiana Legislature this week for their service in a program that helps students understand how the court system works.

Massive, unexplained bivalve die-off sends many Louisiana oystermen back to square one Halle Parker Mitch Jurisich, a third-generation oysterman, dropped a long pair of oyster tongs into the Gulf of Mexico and lightly raked the water bottom. When he brought up his catch — several oysters that he laid along the side of his boat — all but one were dead. The more resilient hooked mussels, typically found clustered along the areas oyster reefs, had suffered the same fate. The stench of rottin...