Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana on anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Ida made landfall Sunday, 16 years after Katrina hit the state costing more than a thousand lives and billions of dollars in damages.

NYC Search and Rescue team to help with Hurricane Ida recovery

New York Task Force 1, an urban Search and Rescue team, is heading to Louisiana to help with response and recovery efforts after Hurricane Ida.

Louisiana hospitals full with COVID-19 patients hope for best as Ida hits

As Hurricane Ida hits, New Orleans hospitals plan to ride out the storm as best as possible. Evacuating patients wasn’t an option as beds are nearly full amid the state's fourth COVID-19 surge.

Hurricane Ida could hit New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina anniversary

Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday and threatened to slam into Louisiana with devastating force over the weekend, prompting New Orleans' mayor to order everyone outside the protection of the city's levees to evacuate.

New Mexico may have to ration health care at coronavirus cases rise

“We’re going to have to choose who gets care and who doesn’t get care,” state Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase warned.

DOD sends military personnel to COVID-19 crushed hospitals in Louisiana, Mississippi

U.S. military medical officers have been deployed to hospitals in Mississippi and Louisiana as both states face devastating surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths amid low vaccination rates.

New Orleans Jazz Fest canceled for 2021 amid surging COVID-19 cases

The New Orleans Jazz Fest, which had been postponed from 2020 to October 2021, has again been canceled due to surging COVID-19 cases in Louisiana.

Louisiana family tries to coax 12-foot alligator off of busy highway

A group of Louisiana drivers spent hours trying to move a 12-foot alligator off a busy interstate with a paint-roller extension pole.

Louisiana brings back statewide mask mandate amid delta-driven COVID-19 surge

Louisiana is reenacting a statewide mask mandate for both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents across all indoor locations, including schools and colleges.

Judge allows vaccination to count towards community service

A Louisiana judge is allowing some of those being sentenced to probation in his court to get a coronavirus vaccination to reduce their community service requirement.

Pelicans' Jaxson Hayes arrested, hospitalized following physical altercation with LAPD officers

New Orleans Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes was arrested and hospitalized following an altercation with LAPD officers in Woodland Hills. According to the department, the incident may have involved force being applied to Hayes’ neck.

Louisiana residents took $1M in COVID funds from California

More than 100 false claims to California’s Employment Development Department netted $1 million for eight people, and five of them also got more than $60,000 that they weren’t due from the Louisiana Workforce Commission, officials said.