Hurricanes are classified on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which ranks storms based on their sustained wind speeds ...

A Louisiana judge has permanently banned a Florida-based company from operating in the state after finding it overcharged ...

Hurricane Melissa on Monday became the third Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2025, and all of them surged up within days/ ...

New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity (NOAHH) has received a $250,000.00 disaster resilience grant from Verizon. NOAHH is one ...

This November, CRCL is seeking volunteers to help plant 25,000 dune grass plugs along Grand Isle’s levee damaged by Hurricane ...

Financial growth remains elusive in several U.S. states, where economic challenges persist despite national progress.

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The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina last year led to $5 million in funding for Beehive Microgrids–permanent and portable solar microgrids that will ...

The Advocate spoke with Stone Town, 21, a Louisiana newlywed trapped at a resort on Jamaica, over a shakey phone connection ...

Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a major Category 4 hurricane, with the possibility of intensifying to a Category 5 ...

Hurricane Melissa, an intense Category 5 storm, threatened to bring catastrophic winds, heavy rainfall, flash floods and landslides as it tracked through the northern Caribbean and neared landfall in ...

Hurricane Melissa is the strongest storm to hit Jamaica in recent history. It has already caused fatalities in Haiti and the ...