Last week’s flooding throughout parts of St. Charles Parish brought with it an unwelcome reminder that COVID-19 does not bring with it a ceasefire with regard to other unfortunate events. It, in most instances, only complicates things further. […]
This year, the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, along with the Public Information Office, is taking a new approach to hurricane preparedness by focusing campaign efforts on educating youth. […]
Parish officials and partnering agencies met for the 2019 hurricane tabletop discussion on May 30 at the EOC. […]
As more residents seek help from flooding, the necessity of signing the project partnering agreement to bring $760 million to the West Shore Levee project becomes ever clearer. […]
Some $350 million is currently being planned for use in protecting coastal areas in southeastern Louisiana which has been in the planning stage for nearly half a century. […]
Greg Williams was ready to help the victims of Hurricane Michael, but he didn’t expect to be overwhelmed by the devastation still in Panama City Beach nearly a month after the storm slammed into the Florida Panhandle. […]
The St. Charles Parish Council unanimously approved an $8.2 million contract for the latest component of the West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee project. […]
In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, a tornado ripped through a North Carolina neighborhood as a team of rescuers, among them Cody Monk of St. Rose, braced themselves for impact. […]
Congress has approved four years after okaying the funding for a $760 million hurricane protection levee to protect the east bank of St. John the Baptist Parish and parts of neighboring St. Charles and St. James parishes from storm surges that could be caused by the so-called 100-year storm or a hurricane with a one percent chance of coming up any year. […]
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