All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2018 // Louisiana is getting $161.4 million in restoration grants from the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill to restore two barrier islands and a headland in the Terrebonne Basin.The work will restore Timbalier and Trinity islands,...
Nov 21 2018 // Seasonally adjusted data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment in Louisiana increased by 19,400 jobs to 1,989,700 since October 2017.According to the Louisiana...
Nov 19 2018 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated three Louisiana parishes as contiguous disaster areas as the result of excessive rain and flooding that occurred April 1 to June 30, 2018, according to Agriculture...
Nov 8 2018 // Possible tornados touched down in Louisiana and Mississippi as a line of storms moved across the Deep South.Tree limbs and power lines were down from Louisiana to Alabama early Tuesday, prompting some schools to delay the...
Nov 5 2018 // A fire destroyed a south Louisiana gym and thousands of dollars in donations being held there ahead of a charity fundraiser.WVUE-TV reported that a fire Wednesday night destroyed the Garyville Recreation Center gym in St....
Oct 29 2018 // A national transportation research group says 14 percent of Louisiana’s state and local bridges are structurally deficient, the seventh-highest rate in the nation.A report by TRIP, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit...
Oct 25 2018 // Records show that before a barge-mounted crane slammed into a Louisiana bridge this month, operators for Marquette Transportation had more than 30 collisions and the company likely wasn’t fined.The Advocate reports...
Oct 22 2018 // People searching for health insurance policies in Louisiana will likely fare better than those in many other states as the Nov. 1 annual open enrollment period approaches for the individual marketplace.The Advocate reports...
Oct 19 2018 // A Louisiana company is recalling 15 tons of packaged ready-to-eat chicken and pork products produced since January 2017 for five restaurants or chains in Louisiana and Texas.A La Carte Foods of Belle Rose made the six...
Oct 18 2018 // A rate decrease request for commercial property policies filed by Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has been approved by the state’s insurance commissioner.Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon has...
Oct 17 2018 // A federal jury has awarded a Louisiana mechanical contractor hired to help build a fertilizer plant in southeast Iowa $62.4 million after concluding the fertilizer plant’s general contractor defaulted on a...
Oct 17 2018 // A barge-mounted crane has slammed into a Louisiana bridge, shuttering a travel artery for what Louisiana officials say will be at least a few months.Operators for Marquette Transportation hit the Sunshine Bridge at...
Oct 9 2018 // A new medical marijuana health clinic is opening in northwest Louisiana.News outlets reported the Total Health Clinic was opening in Bossier City this week. Dr. Chad Rossitter, an internal medicine doctor in Acadiana, said...
Oct 8 2018 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a water emergency involving an east-central Louisiana water system after finding out that the system’s contracted operator is no longer running the system because it...
Oct 5 2018 // Legislation headed to President Donald Trump’s desk could help thousands of Louisiana flood victims.The U.S. Senate gave final passage this week to a package of federal disaster policy changes, included in a bill...
Oct 3 2018 // Rainbow USA Inc., a specialty apparel chain, violated federal law when it terminated a manager upon becoming aware of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed in...
Oct 3 2018 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Eustis Insurance & Benefits, a Louisiana-based independent insurance agency. Terms of the acquisition were not...
Oct 1 2018 // 1.State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyMarket Share: 31.06% 2. Progressive Security Insurance CompanyMarket Share: 10.19%3. Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance CompanyMarket Share: 7.08%4. Geico Casualty...
Oct 1 2018 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner says the state’s auto insurance market may be stabilizing, with a smaller rise in premiums expected this year compared with prior years.Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says...
Sep 27 2018 // Hurricane Florence was the nation’s second rainiest storm in 70 years, a top rainfall meteorologist calculated.Only last year’s Hurricane Harvey rained more over a 14,000 square mile (36,260 square kilometers)...