What's Your Flood Risk? By Littice Bacon-Blood For more than 20 years flood insurance premiums in Jefferson Parish have been calculated based on maps adopted in 1995. “So, if a citizen calls their ...

Separate five-member councils — one for the city of Lafayette, the other for the entire parish — would be created under a proposal going before the city-parish council Tuesday. The July 10 council ...

An illustration provided by FEMA to outline the complex process of the adoption of new flood insurance rate maps. (FEMA) The two-year delay in implementing Jefferson Parish's new flood elevation maps ...

HOUMA — Terrebonne and Lafourche parish officials are contracting with private experts to help appeal alleged errors in FEMA maps that determine flood risk, flood-insurance rates and home-elevation ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released new preliminary flood maps for Jefferson Parish, and are asking the public to participate in a 90-day comment period. Flood maps are created by ...

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Jefferson Parish Public School parents are getting their first look at the "Proposed Attendance Zone Shifts" maps. The JP School Board will vote to approve the maps on Monday, ...

SORRENTO — FEMA has informed Ascension Parish government and area congressional officials that new flood insurance rate maps can proceed without controversial development restrictions along area ...

The new flood insurance maps for Jefferson Parish were accepted by the federal government this week and will begin to affect property owners’ insurance rates beginning Feb. 18. The new Flood Insurance ...