A Hail Mary: What do you do when you’re down to a rookie quarterback who’s never played a down in a regular season professional game? For the Saints, the answer apparently was to give Drew Brees a ring and see if he’d come out of retirement for Monday’s game against the Miami Dolphins. Brees declined – in part out of fears he wouldn’t be in shape on such short notice – and instead Blake Bortles will be backing up Ian Book.
Wrangling over Ida: Residents who evacuated during Hurricane Ida and are hoping for reimbursement from State Farm could be in for a long wait. The company is fighting a directive from Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon telling companies to pay up even if no mandatory evacuation was ordered. And there’s no end in sight to the legal battle.
The Florida model: Two brutal hurricane seasons have battered Louisiana's electrical grid and brought calls for action and investment. Might Florida, which suffered through its own nightmare in 2004 and 2005, be the model for change?
Lighting the way for Papa Noel: If you missed the Christmas Eve bonfires and fireworks along the Mississippi River, check out the beautiful display in our photo gallery.
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Two consecutive hurricane seasons brought hellish storms that battered the electrical grid and left millions languishing in the summer heat, waiting for the power to come back on. A chorus of voices called for major investments in the grid to prevent a recurrence. Read more
Did Louisiana's top insurance regulator have the authority to order State Farm and others to cover short-term living expenses for policyholders who fled Hurricane Ida from parishes that didn't issue mandatory evacuation orders? Read more
Bonfires light the night on Christmas Eve Friday, Dec. 24, 2021, on the Mississippi River levee in Gramercy. More than 200 bonfires in St. John the Baptist and St. James parishes lit the way for Papa Noel, a Christmas Eve tradition dating back to the 1700s. Read more
