HURRICANE ida

There is one month left for Connecticut residents who suffered damage or losses from the remnants of Hurricane Ida earlier this year to apply for disaster assistance with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known as FEMA. Residents in Fairfield, New Haven and New London counties can apply for disaster assistance with FEMA and for low-interest disaster loans with the…

Gov. Ned Lamont has submitted a request for a major disaster declaration to the Biden administration, seeking federal funds to help Connecticut recover from damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. The Sept. 1 storm dumped as much as 8 inches of rain on parts of the state, resulting heavy flooding and an estimated $7.2 million in damage to…

A Louisiana task force is working to gather vaults and caskets disrupted from their burial sites by Hurricane Ida and rebury them.

The remains found in an alligator’s stomach have been positively identified as those of a man who was attacked and killed in Hurricane Ida floodwaters.

Eversource crews came back to Connecticut Thursday after spending two weeks in Louisiana helping restore power to areas devastated by Hurricane Ida.

Louisiana authorities have captured and killed an alligator believed to have attacked a man who went missing in flood waters from Hurricane Ida

Volunteers from the Connecticut Humane Society traveled to Louisiana to help animals in areas hit hard by Hurricane Ida.

Some of the hardest-hit victims left in deadly Hurricane Ida’s wake are Louisiana residents already devastated by the pandemic.

Officials have raised Hurricane Ida’s death toll in Louisiana to 26

As one of the most powerful hurricanes in the nation’s history barreled into Louisiana, a pair of hospitals squarely in its path braced for the worst

Houston-based Talos Energy said in a statement that its oil spill response contractor had installed the containment dome Monday evening, allowing for the recovery of the oil.

After parts of New Jersey were ravaged by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, Katie Perrett traveled there from Connecticut to lend a hand. “It’s very devastating. You know everyone. Personal belongings are literally just shoved to the side of the road,” said Perrett, a divisional volunteer and emergency disaster services coordinator for The Salvation Army. Perrett and eventually three...

More than 400,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana still don’t have power nine days after Hurricane Ida.

Louisiana health officials are revoking the licenses of seven nursing homes that were evacuated to a warehouse where residents died after Hurricane Ida amid conditions deemed squalid and unsafe.

As crews continued working to bring power to those in Louisiana without it, Gov. John Bel Edwards provided an update on Ida recovery efforts.

President Biden toured Manville, New Jersey, on Tuesday to survey the heavy damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida last week.

Pointing accusingly at climate change, President Joe Biden toured deadly flood damage in New Jersey and New York City Tuesday and said he was thinking about the all families who suffered “profound” losses from the powerful remnants of Ida. Biden first toured Manville, New Jersey, a community devastated both by fires and floods. Later, he visited Queens, which lost nearly…

Officials in New Orleans say they will thoroughly inspect senior living apartments in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida after finding people living in buildings without working generators that trapped residents in wheelchairs in dark, sweltering upper floors.

One resident said she was videoing the raging storm outside when her bedroom ceiling collapsed on top of her. Now she worries another storm will come and ruin what possessions she has left.