St. James Parish President Pete Dufresne told voters they had a choice in the trash tax election last week. Option one: Vote for a property tax increase, but ultimately save money by eliminating ...

LUTCHER — St. James Parish received a gut punch late last fall when Shell Oil announced it was closing its Convent refinery and ending an economic mainstay in this rural parish of 21,000 people.

ST. JAMES PARISH, La. — The St. James Parish School System is preparing to make "substantial cuts" to its budget after the closure of the Shell Convent Refinery. According to a statement from St ...

In November 2020, Shell Oil — then St. James Parish's largest taxpayer and employer — announced it would be shutting its large Mississippi River oil refinery in Convent.