Author Archives: Jeff Palermo

Entergy Louisiana announces 90% of its customers have had their power restored post-Hurricane Ida. John Hawkins, the utility's Vice President of Distribution Operations, sums up the situation this way...

More than 13,000 have died from COVID in Louisiana and the increase has changed business as usual for the funeral industry. Funeral Director Zondra Wright with Charbonnet Funeral Home in New Orleans s...

Tropical Storm Nicholas is whipping through southeast Texas, slowly heading towards Louisiana. Nearly the entire the state is seeing rainfall, with south Louisiana experiencing heavier rainfall and st...

Tropical Storm Nicholas is moving slowly inland bringing the threat of rain over the next two days to the Bayou State. Nicholas made landfall early this morning along the southeast Texas coastline and...

Governor John Bel Edwards says to expect Tropical Storm Nicholas to be downgraded to a depression as it enters southwest Louisiana, but noting that it doesn't take a named storm to bring dangerous con...

The Louisiana Department of Revenue is taking steps to provide state tax relief following Hurricane Ida. LDR Secretary Kimberly Lewis says the department is granting automatic filing extensions to bot...

The 504-pound alligator suspected of killing a 71-year-old Slidell man the day after Ida made landfall has been captured. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office Captain Lance Vitter said Sheriff Randy Sm...

The Saints started the 2021 season with an impressive 38-3 victory over the Green Bay Packers in a game held in Jacksonville, Florida, because of the devastation in southeast Louisiana from Hurricane ...

Baton Rouge attorney Ron Haley has filed a lawsuit on behalf of one of the more than 800 nursing home residents that were evacuated to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish during hurricane Ida. The suit n...

Southwest Louisiana is under a Flash Flood Watch as Tropical Storm Nicholas heads up the southeast Texas coast. Donovan Landreneau with the National Weather Service says the amount of rain the Bayou S...