A New Orleans law aimed at boosting disaster planning at certain senior housing facilities has mixed results four years after the hurricane that prompted it. Passed about two months after Hurricane ...

Ida battered Louisiana as a Category 4 with top winds of 150 mph, a tie for 5th strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland U.S. LAPLACE, Louisiana -- Some families near New Orleans have been forced ...

This story, headlined "Looters leave nothing behind in storm's wake," was originally published Aug. 31, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, on Wednesday announced $34,358,061 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants to support ...