Plaquemines Parish

Updates with Dow Chemical saying crews still working to extinguish fire, monitoring air quality; potential hazards of ethylene oxide as listed by a U.S. agency.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. must pay more than $6.7 million in damages in the death of a garbage truck driver killed when a tire he was inflating exploded,…

The Coast Guard plans to burn off oil that spilled last week in a marsh about 42 miles (more than 65 kilometers) south-southeast of New Orleans.A news…

Tropical Storm Barry formed off the coast of Louisiana on Thursday and threatened to blow ashore as a hurricane with drenching rains that could test the…

The City of West Monroe, American Red Cross and the Ouachita Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness are coordinating with the…

Louisiana will borrow $185 million in April to finance highly sought roadwork ranging from widening of Interstate 10 in the capital city to a new…

Two people are missing after a boat capsized in the lower Mississippi River.The Coast Guard says it received a report about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday of a…

Fire has killed two children and burned four people who tried to rescue them from a mobile home in a New Orleans suburb.News agencies report that the…

Today marks the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s destructive landfall in Plaquemines Parish. State Climatolgist Barry Keim says Katrina had a storm…