Hurricane Rita's landfall launched an exodus from Cameron Parish. In the years after the storm's Sept. 24, 2005, landfall, people, businesses, and resources all began to move away from the southwest ...

While we're looking back at the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week, many other destructive hurricanes have hammered the U.S. during the last two weeks of August. On Aug. 27, 2020, five years ...

CAMERON, La. (KPLC) - South Cameron Memorial Hospital is one of the many structures destroyed by Hurricane Laura. In the last five years since Laura’s landfall, residents have had only a mobile health ...

CAMERON, La. (KPLC) - When Hurricane Rita hit, Cameron Parish had a population of nearly 10,000. Today, that number is barely over 4,000. The storm didn’t just start a decline in the population, but ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. Jeff Landry has issued an executive order proclaiming Sept. 24, 2025, as Hurricane Rita Remembrance Day in Louisiana. The date marks the 20th anniversary of the devastating ...

JOHNSON’S BAYOU, La. (WRBL) — Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Rita made landfall in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana as a Category 3 storm. Rita is the strongest storm ever recorded in the ...