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The nearly $3 billion project broke ground last year, but has since ended up in limbo. Gov. Jeff Landry's administration has ...

The city of Seville ... over to look at the old map. “Florida,” he said with a point and a smile. The map had been repaired ...

The Pearl River map turtle relies on the running waters of the basin in Mississippi and Louisiana to eat, nest and live.

Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi early Thursday as residents in the region braced for possible flooding as tropical storm Francine moved inland.

The National Hurricane Center said Wednesday night that Francine is no longer a hurricane and now is a tropical storm.

By Ned Randolph NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) -Hurricane Francine came ashore in southern Louisiana on Wednesday, pounding New Orleans with heavy rains and gusty winds while threatening the wider Gulf Coast ...

By Ned Randolph NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) -Hurricane Francine came ashore in southern Louisiana on Wednesday, threatening New Orleans and the wider Gulf Coast with powerful winds, rain and a storm surge ...

Hurricane Francine made landfall Wednesday in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm, bringing powerful winds, deadly storm surge ...

The storm's hurricane-force winds will start hitting the Louisiana coast on Wednesday afternoon, forecasters say. Francine ...

Hurricane Francine made landfall with winds near 100 mph in the southern Louisiana Parish of Terrebonne, about 30 miles south ...