They served not only to integrate Louisiana’s Florida Parishes into the rest of the nation, but to ensure they would not revert to what historian Samuel C. Hyde Jr. characterized as a “fierce ...

In all, 17 parishes have declared a state of emergency for wildfires, most in the forested central and western sections of Louisiana, but also in some of the pine-laden Florida Parishes along its ...

the Florida parishes and all of rural northeastern Louisiana, which is dominated by agriculture interests, but the 5th District now takes in 42% of what had been the 6th District with Ascension ...