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. […]
After last year’s catastrophic hurricane season and Subtropical Storm Alberto kicking off this year’s Atlantic hurricane season before it began, the need to be prepared is clear. […]
Although Subtropical Storm Alberto beat the start of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season by days, the National Weather Service doesn’t expect it to be as active this year. […]
Students and staff at St. Charles Catholic High School (SCC) recently held a drive entitled “Comets Collect Cans and Coins” to help in the Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts. […]
As Hurricane Maria’s 175 mile-an-hour winds ripped through Puerto Rico, Renee Kinler was communicating with her friends who had taken shelter in Yobocoa and were telling her they were afraid. Then the texts stopped. […]
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