Placing counseling students with providers for required training is difficult, especially in post-storm southwest Louisiana. A new program offers assistance.
Hurricane Laura damaged the only hospital serving south Cameron Parish. A slow recovery process and political controversy mean there’s still no emergency care.
Ben Terry, whose struggles alongside his fellow Laura survivors made him family even to strangers, died Sunday of cancer.
An influx of spending related to hurricane recovery and federal coronavirus stimulus is masking a still struggling economy.
The state is not only recovering from Hurricane Ida, but also from the damaging winter storm and spring flooding that occurred earlier this year and the devastation of Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta.
Other action Monday: House sends sales tax consolidation bill back for changes; rules for when drones rule the skies.
A state program aims to make COVID-19 vaccinations accessible to residents of southwest Louisiana, where vaccine rates are low and people are displaced.
Catastrophes collided on Lake Charles in 2020 and scattered an already fragile housing market to the wind. Homelessness is climbing despite stays on evictions in what should be a cautionary tale for the rest of the state.
Either divine guidance or cosmic providence sent Luna Bar & Grill and Mama Reta’s to set up shop in Lafayette after one natural disaster and in the middle of another.
Despite recent devastation to the regional dining scene, two emerging new bakeries are bringing fresh alternatives to where Lake Charles gets its bread.
A series of natural disasters — the pandemic and two hurricanes — could suppress Black voters in Southwest Louisiana.
Although downgraded to a Category 2 as it approached the coast late Friday afternoon, Hurricane Delta poses a real threat to a weakened disaster response system.
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