All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2025 // Federal authorities arrested a 29-year-old man on charges that he intentionally started the blaze that days later became the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the Pacific Coast area...
Oct 6 2025 // Residents of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana could soon see a reduction in flood insurance premiums, after the parish improved its class rating for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).Jefferson Parish’s Community...
Oct 3 2025 // A large fire erupted in a jet fuel production unit at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery near Los Angeles on Thursday, disrupting supply in California’s isolated energy market.Chevron’s second-biggest refinery...
Oct 3 2025 // One of the largest auto insurers in Louisiana is implementing a double-digit rate decrease.Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple has approved Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company’s request for an...
Oct 2 2025 // The National Flood Insurance Program expired Wednesday after Congress did not pass a federal budget ahead of an Oct. 1 deadline. The lapse means no new federal flood policies will be sold, and expiring policies will not be...
Oct 2 2025 // Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. (CCBCU), the third-largest bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola products in the United States, violated federal law by failing to accommodate an employee with a disability and then...
Sep 30 2025 // Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) violated federal law by subjecting a female administrator at the company’s St. Rose, Louisiana location to sexual harassment and firing her when she refused to continue to work...
Sep 30 2025 // A 79-year-old man in Southern California filed a claim against the federal government for $50 million in damages, saying federal agents violated his civil rights when they tackled him during a Sept. 9 immigration raid at a...
Sep 29 2025 // A lack of resources and outdated policies for sending emergency alerts led to delayed evacuation warnings as flames began consuming neighborhoods during deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires in January, according to an outside...
Sep 29 2025 // Of the thousands of residents needing to rebuild after this year’s California wildfires, Andy Weyman would seem especially well positioned. The TV and stage director had remodeled his Malibu home just five years...
Sep 24 2025 // Edison International expects to begin accepting applications “well before” Thanksgiving to compensate victims of the deadly Eaton Fire that destroyed swaths of the Los Angeles area in January, according to CEO...
Sep 24 2025 // Amynta Group announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Global Surety, LLC, International Sureties Limited and International Sureties SARL (collectively, “International Sureties”), a...
Sep 22 2025 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office issued citations totaling more than $2.3 million to multiple developers and operators of construction projects at sites in Los Angeles.The citations stem from an...
Sep 12 2025 // The California Second District Court of Appeals found that a retail store chain illegally sold credit insurance to its customers.The California Department of Justice charged Adir International LLC (dba Curacao), and its...
Sep 11 2025 // At a church parking lot near Los Angeles, two hazmat-suit-clad workers vacuumed and wiped most of the contents of Elle Schneider’s house. Surrounded by stacked plastic bins of books and clothes, they opened up the...
Sep 4 2025 // The U.S. asked a federal court to force Southern California Edison to pay for fighting a pair of wildfires that were believed to have originated from its power lines, including the Eaton Fire in January in Los Angeles...
Aug 29 2025 // When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Louisiana 20 years ago, the region was ill-prepared for the 125 mph winds and catastrophic flooding that would follow.Louisiana, like the rest of the United States, was...
Aug 28 2025 // Registration for the next round of Louisiana Fortify Homes Program (LFHP) grants will open at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 2, and close at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12.According to a press release, 500 grants are available in...
Aug 27 2025 // Following a massive fire on Friday at an automotive lubricant plant in southeast Louisiana, residents are reporting soot on cars and oily residue in nearby bodies of water.But Gov. Jeff Landry said that there is no...
Aug 26 2025 // A fire at an automotive supply plant in Louisiana was 90% contained Sunday, but a mandatory evacuation order remained in place as crews tried to address remaining flames, law enforcement officials said.The fire at...