Louisiana Parish’s ‘Doomsday Plan’ Trial Set to Start January 13, 2014 By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN The star witness will be absent when a long-awaited trial opens Monday for claims that thousands of homes flooded in...
Louisiana Parish Receives Weather Service Recognition November 12, 2013 The National Weather Service has recognized Terrebonne Parish as fully equipped to respond to a natural disaster. Ken Graham, meteorologist...
Louisiana Parishes Want to Be Part of Levee Plan October 7, 2013 Louisiana residents and parish officials are lobbying the Army Corps of Engineers to include Ascension and St. James parishes in...
Louisiana Parish Looks to Strengthen Dog Ordinance September 26, 2013 The Tangipahoa Parish Council has agreed to explore ways to amend ordinances regulating the ownership of “dangerous and vicious” dogs...
Louisiana Community ‘a Ghost Town’ a Year After Isaac August 28, 2013 By STACEY PLAISANCE Isaac barely had hurricane-strength winds when it blew ashore southwest of New Orleans a year ago, but its effects are...
$48M Floodgate Going Into Operation in Louisiana August 22, 2013 A floodgate designed to insulate portions of Terrebonne Parish from storm surge driven in from the Gulf of Mexico will...
Louisiana Parish Settles Katrina Housing Lawsuits May 13, 2013 The U.S. Justice Department says St. Bernard Parish has agreed to a settlement of more than $2.5 million to resolve...
Isaac Causes Property Tax Decline in Louisiana Parish September 27, 2012 Damages from Hurricane Isaac will cost St. John the Baptist Parish about $2 million in property tax revenue. The Times-Picayune...
Angry Over Denial for Disaster Aid, Louisiana Man Pulls Gun September 17, 2012 A man who allegedly got a fully loaded AR-15 assault rifle from his pickup truck after being turned down for...
Isaac Delays Louisiana Parish’s Distribution of Sinkhole Checks August 30, 2012 Weekly housing assistance checks for residents evacuated because of a large sinkhole in Assumption Parish, La., will not be distributed...