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(The Center Square) − Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority has made significant headway in its mission to protect the state's vulnerable coastline, showcasing 109 active ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — For months, residents in the southeast corner of Louisiana have relied on bottled water for drinking and cooking, with the water from the faucet coming out salty.
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
At least two people died as severe weather hit Louisiana overnight, with storms and tornadoes bringing devastation to southern states and leaving tens of thousands with damaged homes or severed ...
Port Allen is a city in, and the parish seat of, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] Located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, it is bordered by Interstate 10 and US Highway 190. The population was 4,939 in 2020. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
Intracoastal City is approximately 13 miles (21 km) south of Abbeville, the Vermilion Parish seat. It is part of the Abbeville Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Acadiana region of Louisiana. On September 4, 2011 Tropical Storm Lee made landfall south-west of the area. On July 13, 2019 Hurricane Barry made landfall in the area.
The demolition included the lower atrium, the 21-story tower, and a sky bridge that connected the main structure to the parking garage, the city of Lake Charles said in an update on the city's ...
Jim Crow rules were strong through the segregation era, and the Ku Klux Klan was active in southwest Louisiana through the late 20th century. Although there were 7,000 blacks living in the parish in 1964, none had been registered to vote. The 4,000 whites controlled parish and city politics for decades.