FEMA gives hurricane supplies back to Louisiana
Some of the $85 million in hurricane relief supplies given away as federal surplus will be sent back to Louisiana and given to nonprofit agencies for distribution, the state's hurricane recovery office...
View ArticleFay's Remnants Spread Across South
The remnants of Tropical Storm Fay spread over a wide swath of the South on Monday, bringing heavy rain and wind as forecasters warned of possible flash flooding and tornadoes from Louisiana to Georgia
View ArticleCan Louisiana Take Gustav's Punch?
As another storm heads its way, New Orleans is still vulnerable -- but not quite as vulnerable as it was before Katrina
View ArticleLouisiana delegation torn between family, duty
With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on their state, Louisiana delegates to the Republican National Convention on Sunday were torn between party duty and concern for family back home.
View ArticleLa. Hospitals Could Be Evacuated
The Associated Press has learned that some 800 patients in a dozen Louisiana hospitals may have to be evacuated in the next three days because the facilities do not have air conditioning
View ArticleLouisiana governor: Speed up power grid repairs
The governor of hurricane-battered Louisiana said Wednesday that the prospect of some areas of the state being without electricity for weeks, as power company officials have warned, is unacceptable.
View ArticleLack of electricity may complicate new evacuations
The federal government is "working with great urgency" to restore one-third of the households in Louisiana that still have no power days after after Hurricane Gustav, the chief of Homeland Security...
View ArticleIke Spills Half a Million Gallons of Oil
The environmental damage of Hurricane Ike is only now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico
View ArticleDad Testifies Britney Spears's Home Is Louisiana
Jamie Spears insists in his daughter's driving-without-a-California-license trial that she plans to return to the South
View ArticleBritney Spears Brings Her Boys to Louisiana
For the first time since losing custody, the pop star takes Preston and Jayden out of state
View ArticlePolice: Papers seized from Klan leader accused of murder
Authorities say they confiscated documents related to the Ku Klux Klan from the Louisiana home of a man accused of killing a woman who tried to join the group.
View ArticleIt's Election Day in Louisiana
Four weeks and four days after the November 4 elections, it's Election Day all over again in Louisiana.
View ArticleNoose found on desk of Louisiana homeland security employee
A noose was found Wednesday on the desk of an African-American supervisor at the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, according to the agency's director.
View ArticleLouisiana barge workers find wreck; 5 boaters dead
Five people were killed when their boat struck a barge in southern Louisiana, the Terrebonne Parish sheriff said Thursday.
View ArticleRemoving a justice of the peace in Louisiana no cakewalk
Two disgruntled Louisiana newlyweds have called for the dismissal of a justice of the peace who refused to marry the interracial couple, and have even been joined in their fight by the governor, who...
View ArticleGulf Coast birds in danger
Humans have always looked to birds for joy, inspiration and comfort, but if we look toward the birds of the Gulf Coast today, we feel no comfort, only a deep and growing unease.
View ArticleOil spill changes everything
The oil disaster plaguing the Gulf of Mexico and our coastal states puts our desperate need for a new clean energy economy in stark relief. We need to move away from dirty, dangerous and deadly energy...
View ArticleWind shift threatens Louisiana coast with oil slick, governor says
A wind shift could push more oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon gusher into the Mississippi Delta and areas west of the river, which is "bad news for Louisiana," Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday afternoon.
View ArticleLouisiana demands federal action on dredge plan
Frustrated Louisiana officials Sunday demanded the federal government approve their plans to dredge up walls of sand to protect delicate inland estuaries from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
View ArticleFeds give partial OK to Louisiana dredge plan
The federal government gave partial approval Thursday to Louisiana's plan to keep oil out of coastal estuaries by dredging up new barrier islands, the official leading the government's response to the...
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