Shirley Holmes said that above all, her husband of 42 years was two things: a joker and a dancer. “Oh god, he could out-dance everyone,” she said. “We’d go to parties and they were just sitting and ...

Consultants for the New Orleans City Council have issued a new report saying that Entergy New Orleans should be able to collect $170 million from local customers to pay for damages caused by Hurricane ...

NEW ORLEANS - The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida's fury, passing their toughest test since the federal government spent billions of dollars to ...

NEW ORLEANS Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., blowing off roofs and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River as it rushed from the ...

The City Council is taking up Entergy New Orleans’ request to raise customer bills because of the $170 million in costs the utility racked up during Hurricane Ida. Utility committee members voted ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- Crews in Louisiana have restored power to nearly 70% of greater New Orleans and nearly all of Baton Rouge after Hurricane Ida, but outside those large cities, getting lights ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — All of Orleans Parish was without power Sunday night due to “catastrophic transmission damage,” power company Entergy said. The city’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency ...

“Hurricane Ida was an eye-opener,” Colin Arnold, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, told Verite in a recent interview. Twenty-one New Orleans residents ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., rushing from the Louisiana coast toward New Orleans and one of the nation’s most ...