Package also would suspend debt limit, drawing heavy GOP opposition.

Between COVID-19, the five named storms that hit the state in 2020 and the industry’s ever-present labor shortage, Louisiana contractors have spent the last year trying to get by with a maxed-out workforce and pandemic-related supply chain shortages.

The lack of 'buy-in' on a plan led to the Corps of Engineers to terminate its flood study.

The utility could create a mini electric grid using power from plants within the metropolitan region.

Power company Entergy begins assessing the transmission failures, including all lines into New Orleans, with causes still largely unknown.