This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response ...

Located new Little Bayou Black in the heart of Houma, these new apartments will include 120 units of mixed-income, ...

West Bank voters weighed whether to renew a key flood protection tax that funds levees, floodgates and pump stations across Jefferson Parish.

Ida battered Louisiana as a Category 4 with top winds of 150 mph, a tie for 5th strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland U.S. LAPLACE, Louisiana -- Some families near New Orleans have been forced ...

Thousands of New Yorkers living in basement apartments without basic safety protections could soon see their homes legalized ...

NYC has published draft guidelines to launch a pilot program legalizing basement apartments for qualifying one- and ...

“We now have 10,000 fortified roofs in the state of Louisiana,” Temple said at a news conference. The state’s fortified roof ...

New York AG Letitia James leads a coalition demanding the FCC publish a rule to provide multilingual emergency alerts, essential for non-English speakers' safety.

A paper authored by University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) graduate student Zeb Leffler has been published in the ...