NEW ORLEANS — Bringing the total number of lives taken by Hurricane Laura in Louisiana to 17, a 36-year-old man and a woman in her 80s died of heat-related illness after the storm in Beauregard ...

Louisiana sees ‘unprecedented’ wildfires amid record heat, ... tore through Beauregard Parish in the southwestern part of the state and grew from an estimated 15,000 acres to over 33,000 ...