All eyes will be on the parish's drainage system this hurricane season after Hurricane Francine overwhelmed the pumps and ...

Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng and other officials will hold a hurricane preparedness press conference 2 p.m.

Jefferson Parish's Emergency Management Department has a new interim director, Charles Hudson. (Photo by The Times-Picayune archive) Jefferson Parish President John Young on Friday named his third ...

THE DIRECTOR OF JEFFERSON PARISH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SAID STORM SURGE IS A CONCERN. >> THE TIDES AT THIS TIME ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE AREA OF 4 AND SIX FEET. SHOULD THIS STORM INTENSIFY AS IT ...

evacuating nearly 8,000 people in Jefferson Parish. Emergency management leaders said last year's evacuation was a good training tool, and they're tweaking some of their evacuation plans for this ...

(WGNO) — Jefferson Parish leaders and their ... the last two options,” explained Joe Valiente, the parish’s emergency management director. “And we’re at the mercy of the climate.” ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Joe Valiente, emergency management director for Jefferson Parish in Louisiana, about damage caused by Hurricane Zeta to the area. People living along the Gulf Coast ...

Here’s how many storms there could be. Jefferson Parish emergency management director Joe Valiente says, in the past year, his department increased the parish’s fuel capacity. “We went from ...