The east bank regional levee authority has formally asked the Army Corps of Engineers to prevent contractors from rebuilding pumps at the 17th Street Canal lakefront pumping station during the 2024 hurricane season, which begins June 1.
The Jefferson Parish District Attorney's Office formally filed charges against three of five defendants arrested in the bizarre death of a Waggaman man who authorities say was shot when two opposing robbery schemes collided inside a Marrero home.Â
Entergy Louisiana customers will soon pay more on their monthly bills to fund nearly $2 billion in projects to bolster the electric grid, after the utility’s poor performance after hurricanes in 2020 and 2021 prompted more than a year of debate about how to best improve reliability in the fa…