hurricane laura

Louisiana residents are once again dodging overturned cars on the roads, trudging through knee-deep water to find their homes flooded and pledging to rebuild after Hurricane Delta blew through the besieged part of the state.

The hurricane is expected to make landfall near Lake Charles, La., Friday, just six weeks after Hurricane Laura pummeled the same area.

Hurricane Delta made landfall near Creole, La., as a Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds

Two men in their 40s died in Louisiana from what health officials said was heat-related illness while clearing debris from Hurricane Laura, bringing the number of deaths blamed on the storm in the state to 22, NBC News reports.

Two more deaths in Louisiana have been blamed on Hurricane Laura, which made landfall there last month as a Category 4 storm, bringing the deaths in that state to at least 19, officials said. The new deaths in Rapides Parish, involved people who died from medical conditions that were exacerbated by excessive heat and the loss of electricity, the Louisiana…

Montville’s firefighting community says they are just helping their own. They’ve organized relief efforts, donating to firefighters in a community trying to recover from the destruction of Hurricane Laura. In a collaboration between the four independent fire companies serving Montville, a decision was made to help the victims of last week’s devastating storm.  Beginning Wednesday and running through the...

Firefighters are collecting items to send to families in need after Hurricane Laura.

Hundreds of thousands are without power in the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Laura, and sweltering heat is making matters worse.

Louisiana residents forced to evacuate because of Hurricane Laura are returning home to survey the damage to their homes and businesses, and some worry they won’t get enough help from state and federal officials

Key state and federal air hazard monitors are offline in Louisiana after Hurricane Laura hit the heavily industrialized coast.

President Donald Trump is getting a firsthand look at the damage from Hurricane Laura

A medical team at a southwestern Louisiana hospital worked through the night to care for 19 tiny babies as Hurricane Laura slammed the region

Residents in southwestern Louisiana are embarking on the epic task of clearing away felled trees, ripped-off roofs and downed power lines after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the state

On Thursday, Hurricane Laura hit Cameron, Louisiana, as a Category 4 storm, bringing 150 mph winds and damaging storm surges to an area that’s still recovering from previous storms such as Katrina and Harvey.  State officials in Texas and Louisiana ordered over 1.5 million residents to evacuate, but some of the communities in the evacuation zones are among the poorest...

The NBC Connecticut First Alert meteorologists are tracking showers and thunderstorms that will impact the state Saturday. The unsettled weather is a combination of a cold front pushing through the state paired with the remnants of Hurricane Laura. The remnants of laura could bring some beneficial downpours into the state. There are two windows for the storms – early Saturday…

The death toll from Hurricane Laura has risen to at least 14, and hundreds of thousands of people across Louisiana are still without power or water. Officials said Friday that those services could be knocked out for weeks or longer along parts of the Gulf Coast.

The MSNBC host noticed a baby squirrel barely moving in Orange, Texas, a few miles away from the Louisiana border.

Larry the baby squirrel had some on Twitter thankful for a brief moment of cuteness amid the devastation of Hurricane Laura after MSNBC host Ali Velshi helped free the critter from its nest in a downed tree and nurse it back to health. Viewers in the 10 a.m hour Central Time saw Velshi cradling a sleeping baby squirrel after he…

A chemical plant in Southwest Louisiana caught fire Thursday morning after Hurricane Laura passed through the area.