Affected renters, homeowners and students from Avoyelles, Lafourche, Pointe Coupee, St. Landry, St. Tammany and Terrebonne parishes are eligible to receive a temporary grant to pay for housing while their homes are repaired or rebuilt.

The calls of whooping cranes from an isolated corner of the New Orleans west bank cut through the humid August air like fire alarms, echoing back and forth in cacophonous, punctuated bursts of conversation. 

Consumer, science and environmental advocates are pushing harder for transparency from Meta and the utility that will power its expanding Hyperion data center in Northeast Louisiana.