Term-limited Rep. Ernest Wooton, R-Belle Chasse, asked his colleagues on the House redistricting committee last week to consolidate Plaquemines Parish into one House district as the legislators ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. — The majority of customers in Plaquemines Parish had power restored after an outage left over 2,000 without electricity Wednesday morning, according to Entergy's outage map.

Now, Greg mentioned Plaquemines Parish. Look at a map of Louisiana and you'll see that parish, a finger of land sticking far out into the Gulf of Mexico. Jennifer Hale of WVUE Television is in the ...

While New Orleans got most of the attention for the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, the storm actually came ashore first at Plaquemines Parish, nearly wiping that place off the map.

Thousands of Entergy customers in Plaquemines Parish are waking up in the dark.As of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, ... The Entergy outage map also shows more than 700 outages in Orleans Parish.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has concluded that construction of the $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion will not impact flood insurance rate maps for Plaquemines Parish, a ...