While federal law requires publicly disclosed monitoring of major pollutants, fence-line communities in Louisiana have long ...

Helicopters are essential for firefighting. They can drop 1,000 gallons of water at once — some much more. That’s far more ...

Louisiana state police said a fifth inmate has now been captured, leaving five dangerous fugitives still on the run after 10 men escaped from the New Orleans Justice Center.

Louisiana State Police captured another one of the ten inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail on Thursday. CBS News reporter Kati Weis has more details.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Arguments surrounding first-of-its-kind legislation that categorizes two widely used abortion ...

FEMA was established in 1979 at the insistence of Southern governors who wanted a more coordinated federal relief effort.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, predicts this season will bring 13 to 19 named storms with ...

Researchers say that over the last few decades, rising global temperatures have been the driving force behind prolonged ...

Local officials are looking at a variety of steps to jumpstart the Louisiana movie industry, from giving the state economic ...

As hurricane season approaches, thousands of weather and disaster experts have raised concerns about NOAA and NWS budget cuts ...

The Los Angeles wildfires were still smoldering when President ... change is skyrocketing rates in hurricane-prone states like Louisiana and Florida, where a homeowner might pay almost $10,000 ...

As wildfire risks rise across many Southern landscapes, prescribed burning has emerged as a critical land management tool for ...