The Amite River Basin Commission, a Baton Rouge regional agency most tied to the long-running Comite River Diversion Canal, ...

Lenders' losses connected to natural disasters are expected to grow fourfold within a decade, according to a new study.

Heavy downpours, damaging winds, large hail and some tornados could complicate Memorial Day travel in the Southern Plains.

Current observations identify a tropical rainstorm in the eastern Pacific that may further organize and earn the first name on the list for 2025—Alvin. Typically, the first named storm in this basin ...

A proposal to change the Louisiana insurance commissioner’s role from an elected position to one appointed by the governor is ...

Climate change should be considered a new core aspect of creditworthiness when prospective home buyers apply for a mortgage, ...

As it stands now, the bill would increase the amount of money Louisiana receives from offshore oil and gas production — ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Orleans Justice Center, still dealing with the fallout of an embarrassing jailbreak, has now been without running water since Friday night, multiple sources tell WWL Louisiana.

Tra’Von Johnson, 22, was found just a few miles away from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail that he escaped from on Thursday ...

Jeff Landry and his allies’ effort to reshape a New Orleans flood protection ... But it otherwise leaves the current system in place. “I, like most people in Louisiana, especially South ...

Tra’Von Johnson, a 22-year-old inmate at the Tangipahoa Parish Jail, was taken back into custody just a day after escaping from the facility. This is the second escape that he was able to pull off, ...

The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had ...