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After Hurricane Ida, elected officials, local law enforcement, the Louisiana National Guard, religious groups and volunteers have attempted to meet the immediate needs — ice, water, food and fuel — of those in Louisiana's bayou communities, but housing remains foremost.
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Almost all of New Orleans and Baton Rouge have power back, Entergy officials said Friday, with the company expecting the city’s remaining dark pockets to be fixed by the end of the evening.
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More than 45,000 students in the state’s hard-hit River Parishes could face a month or more of school closures due to ongoing power outages, lack of running water and significant structural damage.
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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed an executive order Thursday delaying the state’s fall elections into November due to the disruption caused by Hurricane Ida.
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More than 95% of New Orleans now has power back, Entergy officials said Thursday, but about 220,000 customers of Louisiana's largest utility are still without power 11 days after Hurricane Ida made landfall.
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Nine people died from excessive heat in New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Ida, which knocked out power across the city for multiple days, according to Louisiana’s Department of Health.
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The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is looking into more than three dozen complaints or reports of possible environmental damage from utilities and chemical plants across the state that were in the path of Hurricane Ida. Officials at the agency, however, said none of what has been reported so far requires immediate action.
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More than 85% of New Orleans has power back 10 days after Hurricane Ida made landfall, a level of progress that Entergy officials described as miraculous during a call with media members Wednesday.
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Days after the catastrophic Category 4 Hurricane Ida struck the Louisiana coastline Sunday, leaving behind a considerable amount of damage, U.S. Sen. John Kennedy went on a helicopter tour Wednesday to some of the areas devastated by the storm. The Senator spoke to WRKF’s Karen Henderson about what he saw.
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Across a coastline battered and torn by Hurricane Ida, a new threat is emerging: the risks that come with trying to survive the recovery. Most of the region was under a heat advisory Wednesday with little indication temperatures would dip meaningfully in the coming days.