NEW ROADS, La. (WAFB) - Flooding is a threat and fear many people share. But for one neighborhood in Pointe Coupee Parish, it’s so bad that it’s forcing the community to start over in a new location.

NEW ROADS — The Pointe Coupee Parish Police Jury is hoping state and local leaders can convince lending agencies holding the mortgages for residents living in a flood-prone area to suspend their ...

POINTE COUPEE PARISH, La. — Floods keep inundating a neighborhood of 40 homes, so the state is relocating it to a nearby farm field. Its low-income residents are the latest climate refugees. POINTE ...

Ida Well G. Banks lived in her home in Pecan Acres for 50 years, during which it flooded over and over and over again. The neighborhood flooded 17 times and was even dubbed “flood city.” “When you get ...

For her, along with the 39 other families who make up the close-knit New Roads community, it's the best present she's ever received. "I've already started packing!" she said with an enthusiastic smile ...

POINTE COUPEE PARISH, La. (WAFB) - A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday, Oct. 6 at the site of Audubon Estates, which is the neighborhood where residents of the flood-prone Pecan Acres ...

The Louisiana Office of Community Development has begun construction at the future site of Audubon Estates, a resettlement community for residents of the flood-prone Pecan Acres subdivision in Pointe ...

PETERSBURG — High above a city apartment community, 49 red and white balloons rode a southward wind toward the sky. Some of them bumped up against the apartment building in Pecan Acres where a young ...