Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority – West (SLFPA-W) Board President Scott M. Burke has been reappointed for a ...

The event is expected to draw big crowds to Jefferson Parish. Here is what you need to know about parking and the race ...

Only 34 years old at the time, and in office for less than nine months, in 2005, Jindal represented Louisiana's 1st ...

Eastbound drivers on Jefferson Highway near the Atalco refinery are welcomed to St. James Parish with an anti-littering sign barely legible beneath a layer of chemical residue emitted by Atalco. (Wes ...

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. (WGNO) — The Jefferson Parish Public Works Department is looking at ways to improve the parish’s drainage.

Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng signed an emergency declaration for the parish and issued a mandatory evacuation for residents outside the levee protection system.

Jefferson Parish has laid 15 miles of flexible pipeline along the Mississippi’s west bank batture, the area between the water and the levee.

A slew of state, Jefferson Parish and Lafitte officials gathered near Bayou Barataria in Jean Lafitte on Tuesday morning to commemorate the beginning of the $14 million levee and floodwall ...

METAIRIE, La. (WVUE) - Jefferson Parish leaders on Wednesday (July 26) approved a plan of attack against a growing coyote problem. Councilmembers have committed to paying trappers to alleviate the ...

Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry along with other parish officials throughout the state announced a lawsuit against FEMA Thursday morning.

Jean Lafitte is home to about 10,000 residents. It is also part of Jefferson Parish, which includes the Greater New Orleans area. "We have areas in Jefferson Parish, what we call outside the levee ...

Jefferson Parish officials are sending a helicopter to Grand Isle to assess damages there. Valiente said the island was unreachable and they had no idea how it had fared yet.