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Bishop Michael Duca, the leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, on Saturday will join other Catholic leaders, St. James Parish residents and environmental groups opposed to a proposed Formosa Plastics complex for an early All Saints …
Aircraft radar images provided ominous warning: This was no 'drunken sailor'
After four large storms and a couple near misses this season, many residents on Louisiana’s coast are too fatigued and a bit too complacent to run from Hurricane Zeta.
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In a new campaign TV ad launched Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy is doubling down on his criticism of Joe Biden for saying that the country should “transition” away from oil and natural gas.
The following parishes have opened up locations to fill or pick up sandbags ahead of Hurricane Zeta's expected arrival Wednesday. Many locations are self-service and require a shovel and elbow grease:
A storm-weary Louisiana is bracing for yet another pummeling from wind, rain and waves on Wednesday evening, when Hurricane Zeta is set to break the state record for storm strikes in a single season.
As election day looms, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy has seized on comments by Joe Biden in Thursday night’s presidential debate that Cassidy and Republicans say were an attack on the oil and gas industry.
Gov. John Bel Edwards offered all-too-familiar warnings Monday about another named storm headed for the Louisiana coast in this record-setting season of 2020, but the Baton Rouge region appears to be trending again toward avoiding a coming storm's…
GONZALES — Ascension Parish government won't pursue a $17.5 million federal grant and loan to upgrade Donaldsonville's aged water system at least until 2022, parish officials say, amid continuing questions from the new administration of Parish Pre…
Valero Energy has agreed to better manage the quality of gas and diesel from its refineries in St Charles Parish and elsewhere, pay $2.85 million and install emission controls at two Texas refineries to help settle alleged air pollution violations…
Restoration projects along Louisiana’s coastline were mostly spared by the six different hurricanes that have threatened the state so far this year, including Category 4 Laura and Category 2 Delta, which slammed into the southwestern part of the s…
A West Baton Rouge Parish solar farm capable of supplying thousands of homes with power was plugged into the capital region's electrical grid as it began operating this week.
The state Board of Ethics has charged two members of a local groundwater commission with conflict-of-interest violations that, if proven, could make them subject to civil fines and put their spots on the commission at risk.
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Louisiana is starting a financial assistance program to help shrimpers buy new gear to make their nets less lethal for endangered sea turtles.
Nearly a week after Hurricane Delta pummeled the Baton Rouge area with powerful winds, hundreds were still without power.
An estimated 6,125 customers in East Baton Rouge Parish were still without power mid-morning Monday after Hurricane Delta tore through the metro region late Friday, power company estimates say.
Rocky Lute and his family know the wrath and heartbreak of hurricanes.
Hurricane Delta flooded roads and homes, ripped apart buildings and left thousands without power along the southern Louisiana coast, a region still reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Laura just weeks ago.
As Hurricane Delta marches toward Louisiana's coast, forecasters and local officials warned Wednesday that the Baton Rouge area could be struck with heavy rains and, for the first time in 12 years, hurricane-force winds capable of causing signific…
In the summer of 2016, Sylvia Williams joined neighbors in circling Gov. John Bel Edwards, pleading for help from the massive floods that hit the Baton Rouge region. As with so many others, her New Roads house wasn't spared by the destructive delu…
As Tropical Storm Beta lumbers toward Texas’ coastline, heavy rains and potentially strong wind gusts will be the main threat for the Baton Rouge metro in what is sure to be a wet week.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish government has given itself until Friday to submit a counter offer to a local sewer company seeking to run -- and perhaps buy -- the parish's sewage treatment assets.
Three horses tested positive recently for a potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness in southern Louisiana, raising concerns from state officials about the increasing number of mosquitoes due to recent warm and wet weather.
GONZALES — At least since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center has played some of kind of sheltering, staging or storage role in the various disasters that have hit the state over the past 15 years, be they hurricane, chemical pl…
Livingston Parish schools will remain closed Tuesday as Hurricane Sally inches closer to landfall.
Tropical Storm Sally may be shifting eastward, but officials in Ascension Parish have been going through their standard hurricane preparations.
Tropical Storm Sally's overnight easterly shift had Tangipahoa Parish officials breathing a bit more easily Monday, but the parish president is warning residents not to let their guard down and has issued a voluntary evacuation for the area's low-…
ST. JAMES — The YCI Methanol One complex rising from former sugar cane fields in St. James Parish is expected to start operations later this year, but a handful of parish residents and environmental activists claim the company's plans to dump its …
BURNSIDE — Two months ago, officials with LAlumina LLC, a private startup that hoped to bring the old Ormet alumina complex to profitability, announced continued economic challenges would force them to lay off more than 300 employees by mid-August.
Ascension Parish officials took an important step toward deciding whether to sell the parish's public sewer infrastructure in a proposed deal to bring long-sought regional service to the east bank.
A state panel charged with managing the Baton Rouge region's threatened groundwater aquifer agreed Wednesday to offer engineer and former state legislator Gary Beard the job of being its next executive director.
Negotiations between Ascension Parish government and the private Ascension Sewer partnership may be closing in on a breakthrough after more than a year and a half of discussions about building a regional sewer system for the east side of the parish.
Rosalie Lewis and her husband, John, were pillars of their Lake Charles neighborhood, and as the first Black female postal service supervisor in southwest Louisiana, the family matriarch was an inspiration, family members say.
Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The…
'Tarps are like gold': Lake Charles begins Hurricane Laura recovery without power and reliable water
LAKE CHARLES — A day after the most powerful storm to strike Louisiana in a century and a half roared through, this city of nearly 80,000 people was in shambles, with thousands of houses in ruins, trees blocking roadways and power lines strewn in …
Downed trees and sporadic power outages were the main impacts for parishes on Baton Rouge’s west side following Hurricane Laura’s landfall in southwest Louisiana.
As western Louisiana braced Wednesday for catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Laura, weather and local officials say the Baton Rouge metro could see severe weather Thursday, including tornadoes, flooding and high winds.
Residential and commercial garbage collection will be suspended Thursday in East Baton Rouge Parish due to the threat of Hurricane Laura.
As Hurricane Delta marches toward Louisiana's coast, forecasters and local officials warned Wednesday that the Baton Rouge area could be struck with heavy rains and, for the first time in 12 years, hurricane-force winds capable of causing signific…
After a decade of petitions and lawsuits from environmental groups, the federal government has granted endangered species protection to a mysterious marsh bird that has recently been found to have a small and fragile population on the Louisiana coast.
Storm surge, damaging winds, power outages, flooding possible all across Louisiana coast
In the summer of 2016, Sylvia Williams joined neighbors in circling Gov. John Bel Edwards, pleading for help from the massive floods that hit the Baton Rouge region. As with so many others, her New Roads house wasn't spared by the destructive delu…
No evacuation order, but parish president urges preparation now
Southeast Louisiana could be facing a significant storm surge and rainfall threat from a Category 2 Hurricane Delta, which is forecast to make landfall with 100 mph winds between Morgan City and Houma on Friday, according to the National Hurricane…
The state is undertaking two “record-breaking” restoration projects aimed at reviving 7 square miles of coastal habitat and bolstering natural storm defenses east of New Orleans and near Venice in lower Plaquemines Parish.
The rock dam built in 2009 across the deauthorized Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet to block the flow of Gulf saltwater at Bayou la Loutre has aided in the recovery of oysters, Rangia clams and baldcypress trees that will populate restored swamps thr…
The boil water advisory for Lower Coast Algiers was cancelled Saturday at midday after tests showed the tap water was safe to drink again.
A bill that passed out of Congress this week and now awaits President Donald Trump’s signature would broaden the fight against nutria, an invasive rodent that has long plagued Louisiana’s coastal wetlands.
A federal judge has halted an oil pipeline company’s efforts to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit filed by three protesters who were arrested at a pipeline construction site two years ago in St. Martin Parish.
Project examined Louisiana’s stewardship of environment, lax regulatory regime, failure to hold oil companies responsible, tax breaks for industrial projects that bring few apparent economic benefits