#BePrepared campaign to include children’s activity book and summer camp field trips This year, the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, along with the Public Information Office, is taking a new approach to hurricane […]
Parish officials and partnering agencies met for the 2019 hurricane tabletop discussion on May 30 at the EOC. The annual event included a simulation of what officials would do in the event of a hurricane […]
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. The agreement brings together key organizations that […]
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. Nearly $300 million of that amount is […]
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 […]
The St. Charles Parish Council unanimously approved an $8.2 million contract for the latest component of the West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee project. Sealevel Construction of Thibodaux was awarded the contract for the project at […]
Friends brave tornado rescuing people from flooded homes 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 […]
At last – finally. 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 […]
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. “2017 was marked with record-setting disasters,” said Red […]
Parish’s emergency network is ready 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. Even so, […]
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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