The 911 emergency phone system that connects residents with police and fire departments in the parish went down for about two hours during Hurricane Gustav Monday due to what AT&T officials said was a "very ...

As a team of gun-toting sheriff's deputies in thigh high rain boots navigated a flatboat around mailboxes and street signs barely jutting above the floodwater's surface, Juanita Dimartino clapped from ashore.

After Hurricane Katrina toppled four trees onto his house in Mandeville's Lakewood Heights subdivision three years ago, Ronnie Lomonaco figured he was due for some better luck.