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Flash Flood Warning issued for parts of New Orleans, Jefferson Parish
NEW ORLEANS — A Flash Flood Warning is in effect for parts of New Orleans and Jefferson Parish Wednesday afternoon. Strong storms are moving over the Southshore, dropping 1 to 2 inches of rain over the next hour with an additional two inches of rain possible. Flash flooding is...
5 rescued from car in canal after suspected hit-and-run crash in Metairie
METAIRIE, La. (WVUE) - Deputies with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office are investigating a hit-and-run crash in Metairie on Wednesday (July 3) that sent five people into a canal. The JPSO said at approximately 12:45 p.m. the car crashed into the canal at Oaklawn and West Esplanade. Deputies say...
East Jefferson Parish recycling drop-off site moves to Republic Services facility
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Recycling drop-off for East Jefferson Parish residents is relocating from the Joseph S. Yenni Building to Republic Services’ Materials Recovery Facility (804 L and A Road, Metairie, LA 70001). The Westbank Lapalco Boulevard location remains the same. Hours for both parts of the parish...
Jefferson Parish to open cooling centers
NEW ORLEANS — Jefferson Parish officials announced that they will open cooling centers for residents on Thursday and Friday due to the forecasted heat. The River Ridge and Terrytown library branches will open Thursday, July 4, and Friday, July 5, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. "There will be...
Jefferson Parish's Uncle Sam Jam kicks off despite heat, flash floods
Jefferson Parish planned to hold its 29th annual Uncle Sam Jam Wednesday come rain or shine. This year, the festivities took place in spite of both. The Independence Day celebration kicked off Wednesday afternoon at Lafreniere Park amid both a heat advisory and flash flood warning blanketing the parish in the hours beforehand, with festivalgoers sheltering under tents and blasting electric fans to avoid the heat.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office says car crashed into Metairie canal after hit-and-run
METAIRIE, La. — A car crashed into a canal in Metairie on Wednesday afternoon following strong storms that moved over the area. The car crashed into the canal near West Esplanade and Oaklawn in Metairie. A photo sent to WDSU by Renee Picheloup shows just how high the water...
Urban League of Louisiana apprenticeship program gets $1.2M in federal funding
Cameron Bernard, 24, was trying to plan for his future with few high-paying opportunities for work when he heard about the cybersecurity apprenticeship program run by the Urban League of Louisiana. Through the Urban League's Career Pathways Program, within a year, Bernard, of Jefferson Parish, will have the training and...
School officials expected Old Haynes Academy School property to be worth more
METAIRIE, La. — Once a bustling school in Old Metairie, all that’s left of Haynes Academy now are people’s memories of it. “It was wonderful,” Haynes Academy Alumni and longtime Old Metairie Resident Muffin Balart said. “I had the best teachers, and they lived in the neighborhood.”
Power restored in Jefferson Parish
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Nearly 6,000 customers were without power in Jefferson Parish on Tuesday afternoon. According to Entergy's outage map, 6,393 customers are impacted by the outage. Power was restored around 8 p.m. The outage was near Veterans Boulevard and Interstate 10. "We are aware of an outage...
Entergy has restored all power in Jefferson Parish
KENNER, La. — Entergy New Orleans has restored all power for customers in Jefferson Parish near the airport. More than 6,000 customers were without power in Kenner north of I-10 around 4 p.m. JP Councilman at Large, Scott Walker posted to his facebook satting a substation personnel located a...
Bringing the Marsh Back Home
As a schoolgirl in the 1980s, Jennifer Van Vrancken loved to ride her Schwinn bike along the Lake Pontchartrain shore while her dad jogged next to her. Her family home in Metairie, La., a community that abuts New Orleans, sat one block from the lakefront. The lake’s brisk breezes and catches of shrimp and crabs, unloaded at Bucktown Harbor, were a welcome feature of life growing up.
The Vietnamese Impact on Jefferson Parish’s Seafood Industry
In Jefferson Parish, seafood is much more than an industry or an economic driver — it’s a way of life. From the serene coastal waters of Grand Isle to the busy banks of Lake Pontchartrain, the underwater bounty collected by fishermen is a testament to the region’s biodiversity, and that diversity extends to the fishermen themselves.
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