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

The Los Angeles County Fire Department will deploy an urban search and rescue team to Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane ...

Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 hurricane Tuesday and make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in ...

Melissa was a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph as of 7 a.m. Thursday and a hurricane warning was in effect in ...

Warmer Gulf waters fuel faster hurricane intensification Evacuations remain difficult for elderly and medical facilities State task force proposed “evaculanes” to ease congestion Officials resist ...

La Niña conditions developed in September with sea surface temperatures 0.5° below average in the equatorial Pacific. Here's ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana and U.S. flags were ordered to be flown at half-staff Friday for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Gov. Jeff Landry proclaimed Aug. 29, ...

Ida battered Louisiana as a Category 4 with top winds of 150 mph, a tie for 5th strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland U.S. LAPLACE, Louisiana -- Some families near New Orleans have been ...

Help is on the way as the Los Angeles County Fire Department is sending crews to hurricane-devastated Jamaica.

Landfall is expected on Sunday night. Ida lurked off the coast of southeastern Louisiana late Saturday, forecast to intensify into a devastating Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds, packing ...

Days after Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica, international airports across the island have reopened. A flight from Jamaica ...