Mandatory evacuation orders remain in place Saturday for several Louisiana communities as efforts to battle the Tiger Island fire in Beauregard Parish continue. As of Saturday, the Forestry Department reported that containment remains at approximately 50%, but is improving. Twelve residential structures have been lost to the fire, but there have been no reported injuries … Read more
RESERVE, La. — Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road passes a massive, rust-colored aluminum-oxide refinery, then the Evonik chemical plant, then rows of white tanks at the Marathon oil refinery. But it’s the Denka chemical plant … Read more
A dangerous heat wave will build across the Plains and Midwest in the week ahead as a dome of high pressure remains parked over the central U.S. Some 30 million Americans from South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois southward into Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi have been placed under Heat Advisories by the National Weather Service on Independence … Read more