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An unexpected tornado-like weather event caused a container ship to crash as it was unloading at the Port of New Orleans in August 2020, causing a massive spill of plastic pellets known as "nurdles" into the Mississippi River, the National Transpo…
More than two-thirds of Baton Rouge residents believe weather in the parish is becoming more extreme, although they’re split down ideological lines on whether or not climate change is driving the storms, according to a recent survey conducted for …
For days after Hurricane Ida tore into Louisiana, a heaving mass of backed-up water and shattered debris churned in the usually tranquil swamps of Lake Maurepas, keeping George Bennett from his home.
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Local officials are warning people to keep their ditches and storm drains clear of debris from Hurricane Ida as a new tropical storm stirs off the Texas Gulf Coast and promises heavy rain across the Baton Rouge area this week.
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Ricco Wheat Sr. couldn't contain his disgust as laborers carted moldy Sheetrock and waterlogged furniture out of his house in LaPlace on Wednesday.
Jessie Hayes stuck a long, thin twig into the shallow pond behind his house.
When East Baton Rouge passed stricter flood protection rules for developers, Councilman Dwight Hudson remarked how the move was unlikely to make anyone happy.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is setting up locations throughout southeast Louisiana to register people for assistance for their damage from Hurricane Ida.
EPA helps state with airplane surveillance, ground monitors in Norco, Garyville
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Louisiana has spent billions of dollars building levees around lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, protecting urban and suburban areas from floods and storm surge.
With a "very dangerous," "powerful" Hurricane Ida fast approaching, East Baton Rouge Mayor-President urged residents to make their final preparations before it lands.
All Assumption Parish residents must evacuate and seek higher ground as Hurricane Ida bears down on the Louisiana coast, officials said.
St. James Parish President Pete Dufresne warned residents Friday that Hurricane Ida is expected to create "widespread power outages for an extended period of time," comparable to Hurricane Gustav's impact more than a decade ago.
Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Ascension Parish will begin accepting horses and cows from owners trying to keep their animals out of potential flood water ahead of Tropical Storm Ida.
LAKE CHARLES – Gov. John Bel Edwards and FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell visited this battered city to mark a year since Hurricane Laura and view halting rebuilding efforts on Thursday, but the trip was overshadowed by warnings of the possibili…
A recent survey found that a majority of East Baton Rouge Parish residents support a new fee to keep parish waterways clear of litter, which can clog storm drains, fill ditches and make flooding worse.
Following two deaths and scores of rescues along the Amite River this summer, the Livingston Parish president plans to discuss safety regulations for tubing at Thursday's council meeting.
Five Louisiana chemical plants that have been under regulators' microscope are producing significantly less of a cancer-causing chemical than estimated in previous years, reducing health risks, the EPA is telling residents of nearby communities.
HOLLY BEACH — It’s in some ways like walking into the past. A stroll along the dirt and gravel road between marsh and grass-lined ponds, the sound of the Gulf’s waves in the distance, seagulls overhead, turns back the clock decades, before the lan…
Construction on an enormous $9.4 billion plastics plant proposed in St. James Parish must be delayed so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can do a more extensive and lengthy review of the facility's impacts on the environment and nearby minority co…
State and local officials are inching closer to the implementation of a massive project aimed at reducing traffic congestion on Interstate 10 through Baton Rouge and beautifying areas around and beneath the interstate.
U.S. Rep. Troy Carter has asked the Biden administration for third-party monitoring of air emissions in the Mississippi River corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — and for money to study the cumulative impact of those emissions on public health.
After countless summers pulling up traps on his family farm, which harvests 300,000 pounds of crawfish a day, David Vercher knows full well how unforgiving the work can be.
Metro Councilman Rowdy Gaudet is delaying his effort to implement a building moratorium in East Baton Rouge.
The National Weather Service is moving a radar station crucial for storm detection in Southeast Louisiana 40 miles west from its current home in Slidell to Hammond — a step officials promise will dramatically improve storm detection in the Baton …
After a failed attempt to shift funding from libraries and mosquito control to flood prevention, East Baton Rouge officials say almost no option is off the table.
In recent years, LSU's rowing team has waged an ongoing battle with the campus lakes where they practice.
Robert Burns’ voice breaks when recounting how the Comite River left its banks, flowed over stacked-up sandbags and rushed into his house.
Leaders in Ascension, East Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes say they are renewing focus on breaking the political and hydrological logjam that has allowed chronic flooding in the Spanish Lake and Bluff Swamp areas and Bayou Manchac to go unresol…
Garbage collection — already overwhelmed by a pandemic-related rise in trash — is hitting new snags in Baton Rouge as the fast-spreading delta variant of the coronavirus sidelines truck drivers and landfill workers.
Use empty Sherwood Forest golf course to help tame Jones Creek floods? State gives $6 million to try
The idled golf course inside Baton Rouge's Sherwood Forest neighborhood could become the latest in a collection of undeveloped pockets of land that city-parish leaders are eyeing to buy and turn into buffers against future floods.
In May, a storm dumped 13 inches of rain in six to eight hours on parts of East Baton Rouge, Ascension and Iberville Parishes. It overwhelmed drainage systems and flooded neighborhoods — some of which had avoided inundation in the historic 2016 storm.
Drawing on millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief money, Louisiana is offering the state’s 1,700-plus public and private K-12 schools the chance to conduct routine but voluntary testing of students and staff for the deadly coronavirus, whe…
For nearly six years, the Nucor Steel iron plant in St. James Parish released caustic sulfuric acid mist and highly flammable, rotten egg-smelling hydrogen sulfide into the air — and neither the plant nor regulators knew about it, documents show.
Baton Rouge and surrounding communities should expect to see the worst of Hurricane Ida from around 10 p.m. Sunday to 1 a.m. Monday, the National Weather Service says.
'Some people didn't heed' evacuation order, parish official says
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Assumption Parish will open shelter of last resort early Sunday as Hurricane Ida bears down on coast
Assumption Parish will open a shelter of last resort 7 a.m. Sunday in Napoleonville for residents who have remained in the parish in spite of a mandatory evacuation order.
With the eye of the powerful Hurricane Ida expected to swipe past the western edge of Ascension Parish late Sunday night, parish government has decided to open two shelters of last resort early the same day.
With increasingly powerful Hurricane Ida bearing down on the Louisiana coast, public officials prepared shelters of last resort and warned residents to get ready as the capital region's highways jammed with people trying to escape the massive stor…
Some Louisiana towns have shorter levees - or none at all
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With a "very dangerous," "powerful" Hurricane Ida fast approaching, East Baton Rouge Mayor-President urged residents to make their final preparations before it lands.
All Assumption Parish residents must evacuate and seek higher ground as Hurricane Ida bears down on the Louisiana coast, officials said.
St. James Parish President Pete Dufresne warned residents Friday that Hurricane Ida is expected to create "widespread power outages for an extended period of time," comparable to Hurricane Gustav's impact more than a decade ago.