Grand Isle News

Students at Nicholls State University want you to think carefully about throwing trash in the water.

After a day working out with her friends, Connie Boudreaux, of Labadieville, decided to head to a friend's camp on Grand Isle.

Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary William D. Ankner, Ph.D., announced that the department has begun mailing the first LA 1 toll bridge violation notices.

Chief Administrative Assistant Deano Bonano said Monday morning that he expects some rain and wind gusts up to 30 miles an hour in East Jefferson, but nothing more than that from Ida.

A tropical storm warning remained in effect for Gulf of Mexico coastal waters from Grand Isle, La., to the Aucilla River, Fla., Tuesday morning.

Hurricane Ida is predicted to stay at Category 2 strength through Sunday evening.

Share + Nov 8, 2009 9:28 pm US/Central NEW ORLEANS Forecasters have issued a hurricane warning for the Gulf Coast from Mississippi to Florida as Hurricane Ida with winds around 105 mph approaches.

Ida delays landfall, but soaking rains still lash at the Gulf coast. A Tropical Storm warning remains in effect from Grand Isle, LA eastward to the Aucilla River, FL, including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.

Louisiana's only inhabited barrier island suffered the most significant local damage from Tropical Storm Ida, which came ashore early this morning along the Alabama coast.

Most public schools in the city of New Orleans including RSD schools, schools operated by the Orleans Parish School Board and most charter schools are closed today.

Conditions will remain dry but cloudy through lunchtime with just a few isolated showers.

A 1,000-foot section of a levee on the western side of Grand Isle collapsed Monday morning as tides rose with the approach of Tropical Storm Ida.

Weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents refused to retreat from a steadily weakening rare late-season tropical storm that crept toward shore Tuesday, bringing heavy rain, stiff winds and some flooding.

As Ida gets closer to the Gulf of Mexico, flooding becomes a concern in southeastern Louisiana.

As high winds and storm surge continue to pick up at Grand Isle, workers are scrambling to make makeshift repairs to the collapse of a 1,000-foot stretch of a seven-mile long levee under construction on the south side of the island .

Parts of the Gulf Coast could be feeling the effects of Hurricane Ida in the next 36 hours.

A weakened Ida moved through the Gulf of Mexico early Monday, forecast to skirt the mouth of the Mississippi River before making landfall somewhere on the Mississippi or Alabama on Tuesday.

BULLETIN HURRICANE IDA ADVISORY NUMBER 21 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL112009 900 PM CST SUN NOV 08 2009 ...IDA HEADING NORTH-NORTHWESTWARD....HURRICANE WARNING ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF THE NORTHERN GULF COAST... AT 900 PM CST...0300 UTC...A HURRICANE WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHERN GULF COAST FROM PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI ...

At least 91 people are dead and another 60 are missing following deadly floods and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by the passage of Hurricane Ida.

BATON ROUGE - The chief concerns Louisiana shrimpers have had about foreign shrimp involved the low prices they forced onto the market.