With Spring Comes Training for Storm Spotters March 4, 2013 By JANET McCONNAUGHEY With spring approaching, so is storm season in Louisiana and Mississippi. National Weather Service meteorologists are out on the road,...
Louisiana City Council Pays Hurricane Consultant February 28, 2013 The Slidell City Council has approved a $200,000 payment to Stuart Consulting Group, a company hired to oversee Hurricane Katrina...
Louisiana Police Estimate 10M Pounds of Explosives Improperly Stored February 28, 2013 By HOLBROOK MOHR Authorities said Tuesday that they’ve raised their estimate of the amount of improperly stored material at an explosives recycling company...
Audit Outlines Trouble With Louisiana’s $75M Hurricane Program February 27, 2013 By MELINDA DESLATTE Louisiana’s $75 million “Katrina cottages” program took years longer than expected to build homes for hurricane-displaced residents and paid significantly...
Louisiana Whistleblower Suits Say Military Parts Defective February 26, 2013 A Slidell, La., machining company has supplied defective parts for military vehicles, lawsuits by former employees claim. The suits say...
Deadline Extended for Isaac Claims February 25, 2013 Louisiana property owners with flood insurance policies whose homes or other structures were damaged during Hurricane Isaac have an additional...
Louisiana Road Work Scaled Back Amid Debt Ceiling Worries February 25, 2013 By MELINDA DESLATTE Louisiana will borrow $100 million to repair and improve rural roads around Louisiana, in a plan scaled back Thursday by...
Assumption Parish Residents Seek Sinkhole Buyouts February 22, 2013 Frustrated Assumption Parish, La., residents displaced by a massive sinkhole that has swallowed 9 acres of land near their homes...
Disaster Drill Set for Louisiana Park February 20, 2013 Louisiana National Guard troops and local and state authorities will use Fontainebleau State for a disaster response drill March 22-23....
Assumption Parish Sinkhole Gets Bigger February 14, 2013 The sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish, La., continues to grow. John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland...