Nearly 2,000 households that survived Hurricanes Laura and Delta in Louisiana are getting more time in FEMA-provided housing as they complete the final steps of their recovery. The original end for the temporary housing program, now servicing about 1,946 households, …
The state of Louisiana is now accepting buyout applications from some property owners in a Livingston Parish neighborhood that continually floods. The buyout program affects property owners in Priority Zone 1 of the Spring Park neighborhood of Denham Springs. The …
About 65% of a 10-day-old fire at a shuttered tire processing plant in central Louisiana has been doused with water and smothered with dirt, reducing a thick plume of black smoke that had been visible for miles, state environmental regulators …
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Alan McClain has been appointed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to serve as the Chair for the Workers’ Compensation (C) Task Force, a subgroup of the Property and Casualty (C) Committee, commonly referred to …
An explosion on Jan. 26 at a southwest Louisiana chemical plant has left at least six people with minor injuries. The explosion occurred at an empty ethylene dichloride storage tank shortly before 11 a.m., a spokesperson for Westlake Chemical South …
Alera Group has acquired Heritage Risk Management, a Lubbock, Texas-based network of independent risk management agencies serving clients throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico. Heritage Risk Management’s network of independent risk management agencies offers a broad array of products …
Lawyers for an associate athletic director who filed a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit against Louisiana State University say she has been fired in retaliation and asked the court Wednesday to add that claim to her suit. “On January 5, …
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a series of enforcement actions to address air pollution, unsafe drinking water and other problems afflicting minority communities in three Gulf Coast states, following a “Journey to Justice” tour by Administrator Michael Regan last …
A courthouse in north Louisiana will be closed indefinitely so that repairs can be made to the building’s main power distribution system. Crews are assessing damage to the Caddo Parish Courthouse’s power grid that happened during maintenance on Jan. 23 …
Two workers were injured Jan. 24 in an explosion and fire at a central Oklahoma oil tank battery, officials said. The incident happened shortly before 2 p.m. at a Devon Energy oil well pad in Okarche, Oklahoma, about 35 miles …
