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Normal forward speed for hurricane is 5 mph to 15 mph; Sally crept at 3 mph
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.
It's not the first time it's happened and it won't be the last. Hurricane Sally became the latest storm to kick agencies across metro New Orleans into high gear only to change course and take aim somewhere else, leaving local governments Tuesday t…
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Hurricane Sally’s three-day crawl towards the coastline along the Alabama-Florida border will produce life-threatening, historic rainfall flooding stretching east along the Florida panhandle and well inland into east central Alabama and southern G…
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.
Hurricane Sally could reach Cat. 3 strength; storm conditions still expected for southeast Louisiana
Dangerous Hurricane Sally continued to strengthen Monday evening and could reach major, Category 3 strength, as it moves along a path keeping it east of the Mississippi River and the New Orleans region before making landfall near Pascagoula, Miss.…
Dangerous Hurricane Sally promised a snail-like delivery of life-threatening extreme rainfall, high storm surge and hurricane-force wind gusts to metropolitan New Orleans and St. Tammany Parish late Monday and early Tuesday on its journey to an ev…
Like many of the Lake Charles evacuees gathered outside a downtown hotel Monday, all Billie Jean Chelette could do was accept her fate.
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-…
The recent easing of tuna protections in the Gulf of Mexico and fishing restrictions elsewhere in the Atlantic Ocean may be contributing to rapid and widespread declines for one of the most highly prized but critically threatened tuna populations.
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 …
An unusual hissing sound caught the attention of a Texas Petroleum Investment Company employee making their 11 p.m. rounds on Aug. 28 on the narrow catwalks of the company’s Main Pass Block 67C South Platform in Breton Sound east of Pilottown, on …
Tropical Depression 19 formed Friday afternoon 80 miles east of Miami, and is forecast to make landfall as at least a strong tropical storm, with 70 mph winds, at the Louisiana-Mississippi border near Slidell early Tuesday afternoon, according to …
Residential and commercial garbage collection will be suspended Thursday in East Baton Rouge Parish due to the threat of Hurricane Laura.
Damaging winds and potentially heavy rainfall will be the greatest danger to the Baton Rouge region when Hurricane Marco makes landfall in southeast Louisiana and moves inland Monday evening, forecasters said Sunday.
A commission that regulates use of an aquifer that supplies drinking water to more than 600,000 people declined to pick a new director this week, after its previous leader quit on the spot during a June board meeting.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said the state can "strike the right balance" between economic development and the environment while continuing to encourage new businesses and industries to Louisiana.
A regional panel that regulates large-scale pumping from the Baton Rouge area drinking water aquifer is homing in on a candidate for the first full-time director in the group's 45-year history.
Sounding like a sci-fi movie from 1950s, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry scrambled Friday when informed a St. Rose resident received an unsolicited package of mystery seeds from China.
A Formosa Plastics affiliate planning to build a $9.4 billion chemical complex in St. James Parish can continue preliminary work on its more than 2,300-acre site under a new court deal reached with opponents suing to block the facility.
For more than a year, Ascension Parish government's 3,400 water customers in the city of Donaldsonville have been paying higher rates intended to finance $17.5 million in upgrades for their aged system.
Groups fighting a $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex proposed for St. James Parish asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to halt the project temporarily pending a review on whether the project needs a deeper environmental evaluation.
CONVENT — Activists opposed to a $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex in St. James Parish urged the Parish Council to force companies to inform the council when grave sites are uncovered in the parish, which was once home to dozens of antebellum …
When Garry Winchester was a child and on extended summer visits with his grandparents in St. James Parish, his grandfather would often remind the youth from New Orleans about the family's ties to the sugar cane fields along River Road.
A strong EF-1 tornado ripped through a nearly four-mile path in Baton Rouge early Wednesday, the National Weather Service said in a report released later that night.
A local commission is inching forward with plans for a study to see if restrictions on Baton Rouge-area industries or other major conservation measures are necessary to preserve the area’s drinking water — but it hasn’t figured out yet how to pay for it.
ST. GABRIEL — An $87 million rail and warehouse facility proposed on agricultural land set aside for homes has received a necessary industrial zoning change and other approvals from the St. Gabriel City Council after contentious public debate over…
The air will be unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as children and people with asthma.
Jamie Green awoke Saturday around 7 a.m. to her neighbor frantically beating on her door to alert her to a garbage truck engulfed in flames in front of her house.
Five days after the longtime director of a Baton Rouge-area groundwater commission quit on the spot, the state regulator announced Tuesday it was seeking his replacement with help of management consulting firm Emergent Method.
Friday finally was supposed to be the day ferry rides to Ship Island launched after the coronavirus shutdown — but then Tropical Storm Cristobal blew those plans out of the water.
As members of a state water commission debated whether and when to fire him, the commission's director quit on the spot Thursday.
GONZALES — Susan and Richard Jordan have lived on family property off La. 931 in the Lake area of eastern Ascension Parish for 39 years. In August 2016, they avoided flooding by just inches.
Wetlands ecologist Kellyn LaCour-Conant, of Baton Rouge, will appear on CBS’ "Mission Unstoppable" at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Legislature approves resolution urging parishes to drop lawsuits filed against oil and gas companies
A day after suffering a stinging legislative defeat, oil and companies won a lesser victory Friday when the Louisiana House gave final passage to a resolution that urges parish governments to drop lawsuits that accuse the companies of destroying c…
Officials have secured a contract for what they call the biggest hurdle for the long-awaited Comite River Diversion Canal project.
Oil and gas companies have struck out in their attempt to kill lawsuits filed by seven parishes that accuse the companies of destroying coastal marshes and wetlands during decades of drilling and exploration activities.
In addition to ferocious winds nearing Category 5 strength, Hurricane Laura was expected to deliver an "unsurvivable" two-story-high wall of surge water that would inundate almost all of Cameron Parish and create record flooding in Lake Charles af…
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.
Rising water along the coast in southeast Louisiana has swamped La. 1 and other roads outside the levee system and may cut off Grand Isle and the state’s main oil port for days.
Residential and commercial garbage collection will be suspended Thursday in East Baton Rouge Parish due to the threat of Hurricane Laura.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to stop monitoring the levels of a chemical that is believed to cause cancer around a controversial St. John the Baptist Parish plant in December, according to the agency.
Hurricane Laura is posing a catastrophic double threat of Category 3 winds of 115 mph and storm-surge heights of as much as 13 feet that could push 30 miles inland along Louisiana's southwestern coast and possibly even farther inland along rivers …
More than 250 large sand sacks have been placed along Grand Isle’s busted levee, but there’s little confidence these temporary measures will withstand back-to-back poundings from tropical storms Marco and Laura.
Snake bites may have an unusual cure: the blood of the Louisiana alligator.
Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina exposed the New Orleans area's levee system as a "system in name only," its redesign and reconstruction — at a cost of $14.6 billion — is finally almost complete, with only a few stretches of armoring still un…
Louisiana's Gulf Coast is about to be raked by Category 1 Hurricane Marco, the first of back-to-back blows from hurricanes forecast to hit the state within the span of just a few days.
Damaging winds and potentially heavy rainfall will be the greatest danger to the Baton Rouge region when Hurricane Marco makes landfall in southeast Louisiana and moves inland Monday evening, forecasters said Sunday.
When millions of plastic pellets spilled into the Mississippi River and began washing up along the banks in New Orleans, it wasn’t a government agency or a nonprofit group or even the company that dumped the plastic that finally began the cleanup.…