Tropical Storm Francine is expected to become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall over Louisiana.

Francine made landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers across the state.

The system, due to slam into the Louisiana coast later on Wednesday, has wind speeds of about 90 mph, and is forecast to ...

As of 8:24 p.m. Wednesday, the outage map reports that approximately 230,800 customers in Louisiana are without power.

Louisiana’s power companies have outage maps that provide details about the outage, including how many people were affected and the estimated date and time of restoration. To check the status of ...

A tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to strengthen to a hurricane before it brings damaging high-speed winds, heavy rains and flash flooding to Louisiana and Texas this week.

Louisiana likely will be in the "crosshairs" of a hurricane expected to make landfall Thursday, state climatologist Jay Grymes said. The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Francine is ...

Louisiana, refinery, the fourth largest in the U.S. A source familiar with the plant operations did not have information about the refinery's status. Several large power outages were reported by ...

Francine made landfall over the Louisiana coast as a Category 2 hurricane early Wednesday evening before quickly weakening to ...

More than 200,000 customers are without power across lower Louisiana late Wednesday, according to PowerOutage.us.

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